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3. Contents Why the mummies were made How the brain was taken out Video

4. Why the mummies were made People believed that a new life began when a person died. The mummy’s soul, the ba, and his invisible twin, the ka, were released from the mummy’s body and lived in a tomb. This is why the Ancient Egyptians built nice tombs. In order for a person to live forever, the ba and the ka had to recognize the body or they could not return to it. That is why the body was preserved or mummified. The Egyptians believed in life after death. They believed that they had to preserve their bodies so they could use them in the afterlife

5. How the brain was taken out First in the early times the brain was taken out by getting a hook and putting up the nose and tugging the brain until it came out through the nostril. Later they would take one of the eyes out and pull the brain out by sticking a hook into the hole where the optic nerve connected to the brain. The last mummies made in Egypt had their brains extracted by poking a small hole in the scull in the back of the head.

6. This video will tell you about a Pharaoh who was put in a sarcophagus