Les instruments d'embaumement de l'Egypte ancienne. BiEtud 125. Sculpture “The Encyclopes” collection

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Les instruments d'embaumement de l'Egypte ancienne. BiEtud 125. Sculpture “The Encyclopes” collectionThe mummy is the pharaonic civilization's answer to the problem of death. Prepared and adorned with protective amulets to allow the deceased to continue the earthly life they knew in the afterlife, this fleshly envelope, forever protected from the ravages of time, bears the marks of the funerary rituals performed by embalmer priests. In this sense, it constitutes for modern man a prodigious source of information on the religious beliefs of the ancient