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“In the best treatment, first they draw out the brains…they extract all the internal organs…Then they clean out the body cavity…with palm wine and pounded.

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1 “In the best treatment, first they draw out the brains…they extract all the internal organs…Then they clean out the body cavity…with palm wine and pounded spices…They cover the body with natron for seventy days, but for no longer, and so mummify it…They wash the corpse and wrap it from head to toe in bandages of linen…Finally they hand over the body to the relatives who place it in a wooden coffin in the shape of a man.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Image:Herodot.jpg Taylor, J.H., Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, London, 2001 p22 Papyrus from the Tomb of Nakht Quote from: Taylor, J.H., Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, London, 2001 p50 Gahlin, L., Egypt: Gods Myth and Religion, Lorenz Books, London, 2001, p141 Papyrus from the Tomb of Nebqed

2 Book of the Dead of Hunefer Gahlin, L., Egypt: Gods Myth and Religion, Lorenz Books, London, 2001, p169 Tomb of Nakht http://www.zwoje- scrolls.com/zwoje39/text07p.htm

3 New Kingdom Shabti http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/bu rialcustoms/archive/uc39742.gif Tomb of Rekhmire Siliotti, A., Guide to the Valley of the Kings, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1996, p148 Tomb of Sennefer Siliotti, A., Guide to the Valley of the Kings, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1996, p146

4 Book of the Dead of Hunefer “Oh my heart which I had upon earth…do not speak against me concerning what I have done…” http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptafterlife.html Gahlin, L., Egypt: Gods Myth and Religion, Lorenz Books, London, 2001, p169 “I have done no falsehood, I have not robbed, I have not been rapacious, I have not stolen…” Faulkner., Studies in Ancient Egypt, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1993, p307

5 The Tomb of Nakht Shedid. G. S and Seidel. M, The Tomb of Nakht: the art and history of an Eighteenth Dynasty Offical’s Tomb at Western Thebes, Philipp Von Zabern, 1996


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