Page Strong | April 11, 2009
The body is clean, the incision on the left side of the body has been made and the slitter has been chased from the per-wabet, or the ritual embalming tent. While the ritual hymns and prayers are perpetually chanted over the body, the wetyw, or The Bandager, sets to work. He first had to remove the internal organs to stem decay.
Page Strong | April 8, 2009
The process of mummification starts with the organizing of the per-wabet, or the ritual embalming tent. The tools of the trade are organized around the body, each within easy reach. These tools include obsidian knives, hooks, wires, bowls, various containers and linen. The body was laying upon a mummification bed, much like what was recently discovered in KV-63, the tomb found by Dr. Otto Schaden in the Valley of the Kings. Also present around the body were jars of a salt known as natron, found in modern day Wadi El Natrun, Egypt.
Page Strong | April 4, 2009
The ancient Egyptian culture has fascinated the world for many hundreds of years. Even at the peak of the ancient Egyptian civilization, it was considered exotic and spellbinding. One aspect of this ancient culture that has captured the imaginations of people around the world is the strange funerary practices, namely mummification.
Page Strong | April 1, 2009
Imagine walking through Egypt five thousand years ago. It was not so different then from how it appears now. The Nile River still crept along its banks, flooding every year to bring new nutrients to the soil and the desert’s chaos still threatened the borders of the Nile Valley. Already, the funerary practices were [...]
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