CIVILIZATION
EGYPTIAN
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the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth
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a writing system in which symbols or pictures represent objects, concepts, or sounds
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a plant used to make a paperlike writing material used by Egyptian scribes
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a stone that contained text in hieroglyphics, demotic script, and Greek, used by Jean Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ancient Egypt Egyptian Mummies. The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification. Using special processes, the Egyptians removed all moisture from the body, leaving only a dried form that would not easily decay.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ancient Egyptian mummification preserved the body for the afterlife by removing internal organs and moisture and by wrapping the body with linen.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Egyptians may have bandaged their mummies for a number of different reasons: First, the bandages kept moisture away from the body so it would not decompose. Second, the wrappings let the embalmers build up the shape of the mummy, to give it a more lifelike form. Third, the wrappings kept everything together.
Detailed explanation-4: -A mummy is the dead body of a person or an animal that has been preserved by wrapping cloth or other material around it. Mummies have been found all over the world, most of them in Egypt. However, other cultures in South America and Asia also mummified their dead.