Chapter 3 LT3

The act of "embalming" can be best described as what?

• Creating a straw stuffed mummy

• Removing the eyes, ears, and nose

• Taking surveys of the Pyramids

• an invention to protect a Pharaohs body from decomposing

True or False: Egyptians did NOT believe there was an afterlife.

• True

• False

Why were Pharaohs bodies embalmed?

• to protect them from graverobbers

• to protect/preserve them for the afterlife

• to preserve them for scientific studies

• to preserve their bodies for future generations

True or False: Egyptians believed the afterlife would be BETTER than their present life

• True

• False

Rulers of Egypt were called what?

• Priests

• Supreme Leaders

• Pharaohs

• Kings