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2. Canopic jar - Wikipedia

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   Canopic jars (casts), Egypt, 945–712 BC – National Museum of Natural History, United States. Canopic jars are containers that were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process, to store and preserve the viscera of their soul for the afterlife.

3. Four sons of Horus - Wikipedia

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   During the late New Kingdom, jars that contained shabtis, a common type of funerary figurine, were given lids shaped like the heads of the sons of Horus, similar to the lids of canopic jars. [32] In the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom (1189–1077 BC), embalmers began placing wax figurines of the sons of Horus inside the body cavity. [33]

4. Canopic chest - Wikipedia

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   Tutankhamun's canopic chest. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Canopic chests are cases used by ancient Egyptians to contain the internal organs removed during the process of mummification. Once canopic jars began to be used in the late Fourth Dynasty, the jars were placed within canopic chests.

5. A newly resurrected ancient smell may help reveal the life of ...

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   Egyptians believed in preserving the body for the afterlife so a person’s soul would have a place to return, according to the study. The canopic jars were made with limestone, which absorbed ...

6. Joseph Smith Papyri - Wikipedia

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   In front of Osiris are the four sons of Horus (see also canopic jars from Facsimile 1 in the JSP I) standing by, protecting the internal organs of the deceased during the judgement. Halfway down the Lilly stand, above two plant shaped wine jars are two human-headed birth bricks called Meskhenet and Shai, gods of destiny that represent the fate ...

7. Tomb of Hetepheres I - Wikipedia

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   The tomb of Hetepheres I (also G 7000x) is an Ancient Egyptian shaft tomb at Giza. It is part of the Eastern Cemetery of the Great Pyramid of Giza (Necropolis G 7000) and is located near the northeast corner of the northern pyramid of Queen G I-a. The Egyptian queen Hetepheres I was the mother of Khufu and probably the wife of Sneferu.