2. Embalming was used. He was wrapped with linen. Sheet of canvas was also used. His insides were in jars evident of the process.
3. His heart was left because it was believed that the heart would be needed from day of judgement in the underworld.
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Book of the Dead, spell 1: funeral procession
Tutankhamun is lying on a deathbed. The sledge is towed by 12 persons of which nine probably are representing the 'The nine friends of the king'. Following are the two viziers of the South and North. All persons pulling the sledge wear a wig and a white headband. White headbands are still used by relatives at funerals in nowadays Egypt. They all wear white sandals in a shape identical with the two pair found in Tutankhamun's tomb.
Tombs Paintings and the Afterlife
1a) Osiris became the king of the Afterlife. He was believed to be will to let all people into Duat, a gentle, fertile land which the righteous dead lived.
b) Nut was the symbol of protecting the dead when they enter the afterlife.
c) Hathor was the sole protector of the Theban necropolis, land of the afterlife.
d) Anubis was associated with mummification and the afterlife, he protected the dead for their journey into the afterlife.
e) Isis and Nephthys waited alongside Osiris and welcomed the deceased into the afterlife.
2a) Ka leaves the body into the afterlife but still needs to rest maybe in the form of a statue of a pharaoh.
b) The solar barque may have carried the pharaoh’s body across the Nile for burial or it may have served solely as a symbolic purpose lying ready to transport the king in the afterlife.
c) The Amduat like many funerary texts was found written on the inside of the pharaoh’s tomb for reference
d) A pharaoh was given the Ankh, symbol of life.
e) The ‘Opening of the Mouth’ ceremony was performed so that the person who died could eat and drink again in the afterlife.
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Dead man standing in the barge of the sun worshipping the phoenix, symbol of the sun god of Heliopolis, Tomb of Irinefer.
Anubis finishing mummification, tomb of Amennakht
