The discovery is shedding light into mummification procedures and the importance of grave ornaments during Egypt’s Ptolemaic period (from 305 to 30 BCE). A study published January 24 in the journal Frontiers in Medicine describes how a team Egypt used computerized tomography (CT) to “digitally unwrap” the intact, never-opened mummy of a 2,300-year-old teenage boy from a high socioeconomic class that was buried with at least 49 amulets. Thousands of years later, scientists are still unwrapping the details of these burial practices. Relatives of the dead and embalmers did all that they could to help ensure that their loved one may reach a happy destination in the afterlife, and many of these practices and beliefs were written and edited in the Book of the Dead, likely around the 16th century BCE.
A perilous journey through the underworld was required before an an individual could reach Osiris (the god of the deceased) and the Hall of Final Judgement. SN Saleem, SA Seddik, M el-Halwagy SHAREĪncient Egyptians believed that when a person died, the spiritual body sought out an afterlife. The coffin of a mummified teenager from ancient Egypt.
