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  2. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    According to a study by Christopher Eyre, [citation needed] cattle meat was not a part of the daily diet in Ancient Egypt, as the consumption of meat only took place during celebrations, including funerary and mortuary rituals, and the practice of providing the deceased with offerings of cattle as early as the Predynastic period. [28]

  3. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian funerary practices are an elaborate set of practices that they believed were necessary to ensure their immortality after death. These rituals included mummifying the body , casting magic spells , and burials with specific grave goods thought to be needed in the afterlife .

  4. Pyramid Texts - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian book of the dead : the book of going forth by day : being the papyrus of Ani (royal scribe of the divine offerings) : including the balance of chapters of the books of the dead known as the Theban Recension compiled from ancient texts, dating back to the roots of Egyptian civilization / written and illustrated circa 1250 B.C.E., by ...

  5. Scans help solve a 3,000-year-old mystery of a high-status ...

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    Preparing for the afterlife “Inside Ancient Egypt” is one of the most popular exhibits at the museum and includes a three-story replica of a type of tomb called a mastaba.The tomb’s burial ...

  6. Foreleg of ox - Wikipedia

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    Mortuary offering for ritual; the first item shown in the formulaic listing of items given to the deceased on the funerary stele (thigh, then fowl, bread, wine, beer, and linen, etc.). In ritual ceremony, the right and left forelegs of oxes is always "unfettered" while incapacitating the oxes, and are the sacrificed forelegs.

  7. Opening of the mouth ceremony - Wikipedia

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    The opening of the mouth ceremony (or ritual) was an ancient Egyptian ritual described in funerary texts such as the Pyramid Texts. From the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period, there is ample evidence of this ceremony, which was believed to give the deceased their fundamental senses to carry out tasks in the afterlife. Various practices were ...

  8. Letters to the dead - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian Letters to the Dead: mainly from the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Egypt Exploration Society. OCLC 7743694; Gardiner, A. (1930). A New Letter to the Dead. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 16(1/2), 19-22. A New Letter to the Dead; Harrington, N. (2013). Living with the Dead: Ancestor Worship and Mortuary Ritual in Ancient Egypt. Oxford ...

  9. Ancient Egyptians drank a heady mix of alcohol, bodily fluids ...

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    Scientists discovered a mix of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids, flavoring agents and alcohol after they scraped the inside of an ancient Egyptian mug that may have been used for fertility rituals.