Vocabulary:
1. ba-soul. The mummy’s personality.
2. ka-person’s invisible twin.
3. natron-salt substance found in the desert.
4. canopic jar-a jar meant to hold one of the four organs (liver, lungs, stomach, intestines) removed during embalming. Each organ’s jar was decorated with the head of its protective god.
5. resin-tree sap
6. shabti-small mummy shaped figures that would act as servants in the other world of the afterlife.
7. cartonnage-linen layers coated with plaster.
8. The Book of The Dead-collection of spells entombed with the mummy and meant as a guide in the afterlife.
9. sarcophagus-stone coffin.
10. false door-a means for the ka to enter and exit the tomb.
11. mastaba-rectangular tomb made of mud and stone. Arabic word for bench.
12. “opening of the mouth”-a ritual performed at the tomb that enabled the mummy to speak and eat again.
13. bitumen-element of asphalt and tar.