Ancient Egyptians
How do you get in the Afterlife?
In the tomb, inside there are items, which one is, Shabti Dolls models representing assistants.
After mummification, the Egyptians believed that the soul travels to the Afterlife. To get to the Afterlife the soul had to pass through the underworld (Duat). This is how the soul got to the Afterlife:
Items will placed inside the tomb that will be useful in the Afterlife.
There is a special ceremony 'Opening of the Mouth' will be preformed so the mouth opens'
The spirit will go through the underworld, they call it 'Duat' an area with lakes of flames magical gates protected by fierceful monsters in the 'Book of the Dead' there are spells and prayers, you will use them to get past.
Now, you will be at the hall of Ma'at. There are 42 mummified gods that'll rate your life, you won't tell each of them the sins, saying you haven't commited any of them. As the scarab beetle is on the heart, it won't reveal any sins.
Currently, the heart is weighed against Ma'at's beautiful, golden feather. If it is heavier. you will be devoured by Ammit, if it is lighter you will pass.
You must go to Ra, which will take you to Osiris (God of underworld) he will let you to the Afterlife. There is the endless 'Field of Reeds', your Shabti Dolls will tend your plot, you will also meet your ancesstors.
How do you translate Hieroglyphics?
Hieroglyphics are symbols that the Ancient Egyptains used for words. The word Hieroglyphic means sacred or special. For thousands of years people couldn't read Hieroglyphics . In 1799 the Rosetta stone was discovered. There were 3 languages on the Rosetta stone . They were called Ancient Greek, Ancient Hieroglyphics and Ancient Hieratics. Because the people could read Ancient Greek they could translate Hieroglyphics .It took 20 years to read Hieroglyphics. Sometimes they wrote the Hieroglyphics left and right or top to bottom it depended on how much space they had on the Papyrus paper. The Hieroglyphics gave many clues to how the Egyptans lives and the things they believed in. Hieroglyphics are made up of pictures and carvings. Hieroglyphics are on walls in every temple in Egypt.
Gods
There were over one thousand Gods and Goddesses. Each god and goddess had a different job! Ancient Egyptian people pray to a god or goddess ask for help or advice!
Osirs=the God of fertility
Maat = the God of truth and justice
set=The god of the desert, storms, disorder and chaos.
Amun= The god of the air and the air and the creator god.
Thoth= The god of the moon , mathematics , science and sacred texts.
Ra
Annubis
Thoth
How do you mummify a person?
First of all, take the body to the Beautiful House then wash the body with cold, cool icy water and sticky, sweet palm wine.
Secondly take out the long bloody, red and pink organs such as the stomach, lungs, liver and the intestines then wash the organs with cold water then put them in Canopic Jars.
After that, get a brown, long hook and then delicatly put it up the nose and whisk the brain when it is mushy and the pull it out and then throw it away.
Then fill the dead body with white Natron [salt] then leave the body for 50 days to dry out and and suck out all of the mixture.
50 days later, wash the dead body again with icy, cold and cold water from the River Nile.
Finally, cover the linen and then use some more long, thin ,stretchy linen to tie it up. Place a colourful and patterned scarab beetle amulet on the heart and place the 'Book of the Dead' to have a safe ride to the Afterlife but before you put the perfume and spices on the body to make the body smell absolutely lovely.
The pyramids!
The Great Pyramid, it is huge. It was made 2510BCE. Pyramids were built to bury pharaohs. Another word for a pyramid is tomb. The first pyramids were built 2600BCE. The second pyramid was built in 2600BCE. The amazing, bent pyramid was built in 2590BCE. The Great Pyramid which is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was built in 2510BCE. The pyramids are one of the biggest human built structures. The Egyptians had no cranes, so stones were pulled up a ramp.