Observation Of Mummies

My object is a barbie doll wrapped with linen tape. According to-site 2 the priests would placed the body in sodium carbonate till the tissues dried out. They wrapped the body in many layers of linen bandages and placed it in a coffin. So my object explained is a doll which would be a mummy and, the linen tape is what they wrap it with. When I wrap the doll I will wrap like how they wrapped the mummies. First, they wrapped the head, then the fingers and toes, the arms and legs are wrapped separately lastly, they would wrap the body and place it in the tomb. I chose to make this item because my project is based on mummies. I made this object from http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/story/page12.html. This site explained the steps of how the mummies get wrapped. The steps above. Some …show more content…
Information I found; Mummification took approximately 70 days.The reason why this this took so long is it had many long confusing steps. First they would have to remove all of the internal organs and get rid of all moisture in the body. They would have to fill the empty spaces with linen bandages.( These were not very thick so many bandages would be used). The next thing they would do is wrap the mummy. One mummy would need about 100 yards of linen or more. You're probably still wondering why this took so long, well when wrapping the mummy each individual finger and toe would be wrapped before wrapping the whole hand/foot. Incase of mishap or bad things they would place amulets on the body and wrap them to the body. Sometimes the priests would place masks on their face