Egyptian Afterlife and Mummification

Where do they put your organs in?

• The floor

• oven to be cooked

• Canopic jar

• back in your body

How many layers does it take to wrap the body around?

• 20 layers

• 60 layers

• 40 layers

• 10 layers

What is the large stone coffin they put the body in called?

• Sarcophagus.

• A coffin

• A building

• A bunker

How many days after their death is their funeral?

• 70

• 30

• 10

• 90

When someone died in Egypt, the body was given to a team of ______________.

• embalmers
• scientist
• archaeologist

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True or False: The Egyptians believed in immortality.

• True
• False

True or False: Mummies were buried with their favorite objects and tools.

• True
• False

The goal of mummification was to 

• Make sure the body decayed
• Preserve the body and achieve immortality
• Become one with the universe
• None of the above

The Egyptians mummified the body because they believed 

• Their soul needed it
• The gods needed it
• The body was going to resurrect in the next life
• It was required by law

The only organ left in the body was the ______ it was believed to be the center of intelligence

• Brain
• Heart
• Liver
• Stomach