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Tutankhamun | 6. secrets of the pharaoh's mummy

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The Removal of the Organs

Those organs were kept in a very careful way, those organs so em for most people who could afford it. Each one of these wrapped and placed inside a jar, into tincarmoons burial. These four jars are shaped like miny gold coffins, or coffinets - each is sealed into a calcite canopic chest with stone stoppers carved into the shape of human heads. This canopic chest is incredibly ornate, decorated with the figures of goddesses for protection. But that wasn't kept in a canopic jar separately. That was just chucked away. Yes, that speaks to what, to us seems like a rather strange idea of the egyptians, which is

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