1. Mummification and Mummies in Ancient Egypt
By: Angela Saltamartini &
Chauntine Marshal

2. Over many centuries, the ancient Egyptians developed a method of preserving bodies so they would remain lifelike. The process included embalming the bodies and wrapping them in strips of linen. Today we call this process mummification.

3. Mausoleum Culture
Mausoleums were tombs built by the Egyptian elite to be visible and receive prayers and offerings in perpetuity.
Predynastic cemeteries exhibit an increasing amount of social stratification through the development of larger and larger toms filled with great quantities of luxury goods and contrasting with several different levels of less wealthy burials.

4. Mummification
Egyptian funerary belief that the body be preserved and given as lifelike appearance as possible.

5. Resins used derived from tree sap Cosmetic treatments Body stuffed
New Kingdom (ca B.C.)
Further advancement in mummification technique, especially for royal burials
Resins used derived from tree sap
Cosmetic treatments
Body stuffed

6. Third Intermediate Period
Padding materials introduced
Skin painted
Artificial eyes used of stone or glass
(ca B.C)

7. Organs sometimes packaged and placed between legs
Saite Period
Organs sometimes packaged and placed between legs
Decrease in amount of internal packing of the body
Wrapping patterns more elaborate
(ca B.C.)

8. Ptolemaic times (ca. 305- 30 B.C.) some bodies carelessly preserved
Greco-Roman Egypt
Ptolemaic times (ca B.C.) some bodies carelessly preserved
Roman rule (30 B.C.-A.D. 642) outer treatment done well yet body themselves minimal or no treatment
Mummification came to an end w/ adoption of Christian religion
Egyptian funerary art developed as a way of preservation
(ca. 332 B.C.- A.D. 642)

9. Indications of genuinely poor or mass burials sometimes reported
The Less Wealthy
Indications of genuinely poor or mass burials sometimes reported
Many people must have been disposed in ways that are now archaeologically invisible
Some because of inadequate recordings, robbery, or destruction but also people probably had no formal graves of any kind
Number of burials preserved only a fraction of estimated population