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Egypt. By Bailey. Sarcophaguses. Sarcophaguses are stone coffins . The word sarcophaguses means Flesh-Eater. Sarcophaguses could be rectangular and others were shaped like the human inside them. Very few, but some sarcophaguses were made of gold. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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EGYPT
By Bailey
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Sarcophaguses
Sarcophaguses are stone coffins .
The word sarcophaguses means Flesh-Eater.
Sarcophaguses could be rectangular and others were shaped like the human inside them.
Very few, but some sarcophaguses were made of gold.
An ancient Egyptian sarcophaguses were a very important part of the Egyptian afterlife.
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Pyramids
Pyramids were built for a tomb of a wealthy man or pharoh. The first kind of pyramid was a mastaba. The first mastaba was built for King Zoser. His idea was to build one mastaba with a flat top. But then he got a idea to build another mastaba on top of the first mastaba. That is how pyramids got started.
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Mummies Any ancient Egyptian that could afford being
mummified after death would choose to become a mummy about 70 million mummies were made during a 3,000 time period.
During the 4th century AD, most Egyptians had chosen to become Christians and didn’t think mummification was not necessary anymore.
Even though when you think of a mummy you think of an Egyptian mummy but mummies were found in many other places to
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