Animal mummies in Ancient Egypt

We already mentioned some of this in the article «Animals in Ancient Egypt«, but today we want to expand the information based on new news that has come out recently.

The mummies of animals from Ancient Egypt, empty!

It has long been suspected that, in a way, the mummies of animals did not contain all the organs but what was not known is that they could be so many.The study has led to conducted by researchers of the University of Manchester scanning the mummies of British museums that got a big surprise: in 1/3 part of them the organs were not but a feather mix , eggshell , mud and sticks .

What animal mummies in Ancient Egypt meant

Animal mummies in Ancient Egypt had a different meaning than human mummies.While these were performed In order to preserve the body of the deceased for the hereafter, animal mummies were performed as religious offering .

It is estimated that in Ancient Egypt about 70 million animals were mummified, then sold at the doors of the temples so that the faithful could deliver them as an offering to the gods.

It was such a business that it is thought that there were even farms in which animals were raised intensively for such use and that, given so much demand, the Egyptians did not have time to mummify the animals as required by tradition, which for lighten the work the filled in with all kinds of of rights.

Some interesting mummies of animals found

1.The gazelle mummy

This animal was raised with Careful for an Egyptian queen.She wanted me to accompany her on her trip to the "Beyond".

Animal mummies in Ancient Egypt

So she was mummified with the same care as the queen herself: with bandages trimmed in blue...Even buried in a box with the same shape of his body.Data from 945 BC

2.The baboon of the Tuna-El-Gebel catacombs

Found here in a special location for him, the priests visited him every day to pray to him and make offerings in his honor.

Animal mummies in Ancient Egypt

3.Meat pieces from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Amazing! The Egyptians prepared all kinds of mummified pieces of ducks, ox, ribs, tenderloins, oxtail...so that the deceased enjoyed a feast in the hereafter .

The house of embalming the oxen of Apis

In the great city of Memphis these animals were sacred, there is still the embalming house of the oxen of Apis, that if in ruins nearby of Mit Raina.

Animal mummies in Ancient Egypt

The process consisted of 40 days when dead oxen were allowed to rest in natron on a bed of stone in the courtyard.

If you like them The articles on Ancient Egypt do not miss, "Tutankhamun was mummified with the erect penis?".

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