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  2. Canopic jar - Wikipedia

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    There was no jar for the heart: the Egyptians believed it to be the seat of the soul, and so it was left inside the body. [n 1]) Canopic jars from the Old Kingdom were found empty and damaged, even in undisturbed tombs, suggesting that they were part of the burial ritual rather than being used to hold the organs. [11]

  3. Book of the Dead of Qenna - Wikipedia

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    Evidence of the need to protect internal organs from harm even after removal is abundant in the use of canopic jars to preserve them. [14] The heart, not placed in a jar, benefited from its own magical utterances, for example where Book of the Dead Spell 27 says, "Hail to you, lords of eternal repetition, founders of eternal sameness!

  4. 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. [30] 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. [31]

  5. 5,000-year-old wine hidden in hundreds of jars at Egyptian ...

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    The discovery supports the hypothesis that Queen Meret-Neith was ancient Egypt’s first female pharaoh.

  6. Canopic chest - Wikipedia

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    Canopic chests had an important place in Egyptian culture. Canopic chests contained the internal organs of mummies, so they relate to the Egyptian belief that the afterlife is just as important as life on earth. Egyptians believed that everything had to be perfectly preserved to journey into the land after life and as part of the mummification ...

  7. Glossary of ancient Egypt artifacts - Wikipedia

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    Benben stone (also known as a pyramidion) – the top stone of the Egyptian pyramid; Canopic jar – vessel containing internal body organs removed during mummification; Canopic chest – the common chest contained the four Canopic jars; Cartonnage – papyrus or linen soaked in plaster, shaped around a body and used for mummy masks and coffins

  8. Archaeologists discover a trove of ancient coffins and ...

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    GIZA, Egypt — A century after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb made headlines around the world, in the sweltering desert heat just outside Cairo, a small team is still making new finds in ...

  9. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes the four canopic jars were placed into a canopic chest and buried with the mummified body. A canopic chest resembled a "miniature coffin" and was intricately painted. The Ancient Egyptians believed that by burying their organs with the deceased, they may rejoin in the afterlife.