Submitted by Mary Harrsch on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 11:06
A new state-of-the-art animation entitled The Mummification Process features a digital reconstruction of a 20-year-old man from the Greco-Roman period of Egypt. The animation, produced by the J. Paul Getty Museum, illustrates each step in the process from the removal of the organs (displayed as virtually disappearing without the hook through the nose procedure that some squeamish visitors may find upsetting) to the application of the distinctive red pigment to the cartonnage outer wrapping.
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Most of the mummies you get in the end [Greco-Roman Period] are not even Egyptians
The Ibis, quite a common bird in the Valley of the Nile, was a sacred animal with which the god of the after world, Thot, was identified. For this reason statuettes of painted wood like this were often added to funerary furnishings, or they were used in domestic life as tutelary spirits.
