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A sarcophagus is a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved or cut from stone.

The word "sarcophagus" comes from the Greek sarx meaning "flesh", and phagein meaning "to eat", hence sarkophagus means "flesh-eating"; from the phrase lithos sarkophagos ( ). Since lithos is Greek for stone, lithos sarcophagos means 'flesh eating stone'. The word came to refer to a particular kind of limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses interred within it.[1][2] An amulet, similar to a talisman (Arabic: good luck or protection to its owner. / transliterated: tilasim), is any object intended to bring

Anubis is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion Canopic jars were used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife Various early 20th-century embalming fluids. Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science of temporarily preserving human remains Maat or ma'at 1] also spelled mt or mayet, was the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice. Natron is a naturally occurring mixture of sodium carbonate decahydrate (Na2CO310H2O, a kind of soda ash) and about 17% sodium bicarbonate Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings, Ancient Egyptian plural: ushabtiu) was a funerary figurine used in Ancient Egypt.

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