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but we do know why
to honor the pharaons,
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both in life and after death.
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Honor the pharaons after death?
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Does that have anything
to do with mummies?
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Yes.
Look at Tutankhamon for example.
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When the young kind died,
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the priests sought
to create
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a magical new body for him.
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For 70 days they labored,
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drying and preserving the
royal body with salts
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and ointments,
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then wrapping it in hundreds
of feet of linen laden
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with protective jewels,
charms and amulets.
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And finally,
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crowning the mummy with
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an exquisite golden death mask.
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Tutankhamon was ready
for the afterlife.
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Had the boy king lived
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and died a thousand years earlier,
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he would have been buried
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Iike pharaons long
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before him in a monument
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of colossal proportions
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the man-made mountain
of stone called pyramids.
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They probably saw the
pyramid's shape
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as a mystical link
between earth and sky,
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providing the pharaon's soul
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with a stairway to the heavens.