Mummification Museum is a unique museum in Egypt and one of the most important museums in Egypt and Luxor. This museum presents the process of mummification in ancient Egypt. It is located east of 卢克索, north of 卢克索神庙, and was opened in 1997.
Why did the ancient Egyptians keep the bodies of their dead?
The ancient Egyptians believed that it was necessary to preserve the body of the deceased through the mummification process for his belief in resurrection and immortality as the soul will return to this body again. The god Anubis was the god of mummification in ancient Egypt.
The ancient Egyptians mummified the bodies of humans and the corpses of animals and birds, especially the sacred ones, such as the Apis calf found in the Serapeum in Saqqara, Ibis and the baboons of the god Thoth in the catacombs in Tuna El-Gebel. There are mummies of cats and dogs in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir and mummies of crocodiles in the Museum of the Temple of Kom Ombo.
Mummification process:
The mummification process took 70 days inside the mummification tent. It began with the extraction of the body’s organs through a small incision in the left side of the human body. These organs were mummified and preserved in the Canopic jars.
Canopic jars are four jars with different heads:
The first (am-sty) has a human head and is used to preserve the liver.
The second (dwa-mut-f) has a jackal head and is used to preserve the stomach.
The third (habi) has the head of a baboon used to save the lungs.
The fourth (kbh-snw) has a falcon head and is used to preserve the intestines.
After that, the body is immersed in the salt of Wadi El Natron to dry it for 40 days. Then the body is wrapped in linen. Finally, the priests put magical amulets to protect the body in the coffin and transferred it to the tomb.
Masterpieces of the museum:
The Mummy of Masaharti: he was the General of the Army and priest of Amun at Thebes, and his mummy was discovered in Deir El Bahari in 1881.
Statues of many of Egyptian gods such as god Anubis, the goddess Isis, the god Osiris, and the goddess Nephthys.
Some mummification tools, coffins, amulets, and canopic jars.
