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Egyptian Scarabs and Their Importance in Ancient Egypt.
- The dung beetle (Scarabeus sacer) was a very important animal in ancient Egypt. Amulets were models of the scarabs as early as the Pre-Dynastic Period and into the Greco-Roman period. The scarabs came in many different sizes and materials. Scarabs would collect dung and lay their eggs in balls of dung. Later when they emerged, it was believed that shit was turning into life. This was consistent with the belief in immortality. My opinion is, if you have a life, don't turn it into shit.
- WRITING
- Old Egyptian writing was hieroglyphs, a system of pictures and signs often used as monumental inscriptions. Egyptians also used a different form of writing called hieratic and demotic inscribed on papyrus.
- THE USHABTI
- The funeral statuettes - ushabti - were located in the tombs, next to the sarcophagus. Animated by magic, they were meant to replace the defunct during the agricultural works in the Heaven. All the ushabti hold agricultural tools and have crossed arms on their breasts.
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Great Pyramid
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A Pyramid is a tomb and a momument.A massive
monument of ancient Egypt that has a square base
with four triangular sides that meet in a single
point at the top; usually built over or around a
crypt or tomb At the time a young pharaoh was born a
pyamid was started for him. The walls had drawings
of all the glorious events that he would have in his
life. It included all things he would need in the
afterlife.
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Sarcophagus
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A Sarcophagus A large stone coffin that forms the
outermost layer in a series of nested coffins.
Tutankhamun's tomb contained four gilded shrines
nested one inside the other. The innermost of these
covered a stone sarcophagus. Inside the stone
sarcophagus were three coffins - the innermost being
made of 110 kilograms of solid gold. Inside that lay
the pharaoh himself wearing the famous gold mask.
Tutankhamun remains in his tomb to this day.
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