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| Picture No | 11076976 |
| Date | 1923 |
| Description | Preparing a Royal Mummy for the Tomb by Matania |
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In the time of Tutankhamen - preparing a royal mummy for the tomb. The Master of Ceremonies superintending the wrapping of a mummy. A reconstruction of Old Egypt by Fortunino Matania. Body of a dead Pharaoh being wrapped after lying in a bath of preservative nitron for seventy days. The embalmers and priests faithfully perform the rites which Anubis and the children of Horus accomplished for Osiris in the fabrication of the first mummy - these form a magic armour for the dead against decay.
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| Source | Illustration by Fortunino Matania in The Sphere, 24 February 1923 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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