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1 Inner coffin 6 Stone stela Frederick Horniman (who set up A stela is a tombstone. The four this museum) collected this coffin people pictured are smelling from Egypt in 1896, when he visited lotus flowers. In the Ancient Howard Carter (who discovered Egyptian Creation Story, the Tutankhamun’s tomb). Can you find sun rose from a lotus flower scarab beetles and the eye of Horus and became a symbol of rebirth. painted on it? These were thought Why would this symbol be added to protect mummies on their journey to a tombstone? to the afterlife.
7 Winged scarab 2 Cat The god Ra was sometimes shown as a scarab This is a mummified cat. The (or dung) beetle. Scarab beetle amulets were goddess Bastet was believed to be sometimes placed over a mummy’s heart for good half woman and half cat, therefore luck. They were believed to help the deceased on Ancient Egyptians treated cats their journey to the afterlife. Do you have a good with respect and they were even luck charm? protected by law. What other animals were mummified in Ancient Egypt?
3 Canopic jar Canopic jars stored human organs in preparation for the afterlife. The lungs, liver, stomach and intestines were often removed 8 Model boat during mummification, then The River Nile was very important to the Ancient wrapped & placed in jars or back in Egyptians. Model boats like this were common the body. The head on this jar is tomb offerings and represent the deceased’s probably Imsety, a god who was journey to the afterlife. Why do you think the Nile believed to protect the liver. was so essential to Ancient Egyptian life?
4 Wooden headrest Would you like a wooden pillow? Ancient Egyptians slept on headrests and also placed them beneath the 9 Bone clappers heads of mummies to protect them Ancient Egyptians played many from evil. Compare this headrest musical instruments, including flutes, to two headrests from Fiji in the trumpets, bells and harps. These Oceania section of the World Gallery. hand shaped clappers are made of bone and are over 3,000 years old! How do you think they were played? 5 Shabti Look for the Ancient Egyptian sistrum Ancient Egyptians believed in life (rattle), also in the Music Gallery. after death. Shabtis were buried with a mummy. Can you spot the hieroglyphs? They are a spell that 10 Papyrus plant was believed to bring the figure to Papyrus paper was made by the life as a servant for the deceased Ancient Egyptians from the stems in the afterlife. What would you of the plant Cyperus papyrus, which take to the afterlife? grew by the river Nile. This plant symbolised life and was believed to hold up the sky. Scribes wrote on this paper with reed brushes dipped in soot and water.
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