Research Proposal

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There were some of the processes that took place in the preservation of the body of the pharaoh during the burial. The body preservations were very much important in case the deceased needed the chance in acceptance towards the afterlife. At the Ancient Egyptian concept on the soul, there is ka that represents vitality where the body is left when the person dies. Until when the body gets in being embalmed in a specific fashion, then the ka can later return towards the deceased body, then the birth will have to take place. Later on, the embalmers get to receive the body after the death, whereby it is at the systematized form, then it gets in being prepared for the mummification. The family and the friends of the deceased one will, later on, have the choice to the options that would range towards the price on the body preparations. The next step that is taken with the embalmers is that they get to escort the body to the ibw, which is known as the place where they carry out purification. This is a specific tent where the body gets to be washed, and then it gets in being purified (Schuenemann, 2017).

So that an eternity life can be lived out, there is the need of the presentation that is at the front of the Osiris, which is the deceased of the body that is supposed to be preserved with the mummification with the reason that the soul will reunite with it, where it will have to take the pleasure of the afterlife. An important process of mummification is the preservation of the body with the use of dehydrating with natron, which is the natural salt that was found at the Wadi Natrun. There was the drainage of the body with any liquid, then left with skin, muscles, and hair that was preserved. The process of mummification normally took up to about seventy days. At this process, the special priests used to work on the embalmers while they treated or wrapped the body of the ones who are deceased to the burial preparations (Zesch, 2020).

The mummification processes had been available to anyone that could afford it. There was the belief that even the ones that would not have afforded to it, this was with the belief that with the ones that would not afford the mummification would still have to enjoy the afterlife when there was the right reciting on the spells. The mummification always existed on three different processes that ranged from the most expensive, moderately expensive, then the cheapest, or simplistic. One of the very expensive methods of mummification dates to the 18th century. Their first conducting step was removing any internal organs or any other liquid for the reason that the body would not decay. When it was then laid at the table, zn embalmer used to take out the brain through the process that was excerebration through inserting the metal hook by the nostril, that breakthrough towards the brain. There was the removal of as many as they could with the hook, while at rest could with the drugs as they drained out (Schuenemann, 2017).

Some of the procedures that were undertaken were that they used to take out the brain was taken out with other parts as they believed that the heart was the one that used to do a lot. The body could then be washed then. Later on, there were some of the special jars that used to be crafted out with specific people where the body could be kept for further preservation. There were also the ceremonies that took place; thus, they used to check on the bodies time after the other. The mummies were also kept together with the dependence of how they served the people; for instance, the normal ones who had no rules would be kept differently from the other ones that were maybe leaders and played all other roles (Zesch, 2020).

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Schuenemann, V. J., Peltzer, A., Welte, B., Van Pelt, W. P., Molak, M., Wang, C. C., ... & Teßmann, B. (2017). Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in the post-Roman periods. Nature communications, 8(1), 1-11.

Zesch, S., Gander, M., Loth, M., Panzer, S., Sutherland, M. L., Allam, A. H., ... & Rosendahl, W. (2020). Decorated bodies for eternal life: A multidisciplinary study of late Roman Period stucco-shrouded portrait mummies from Saqqara (Egypt). Plos one, 15(11), e0240900.