Much of the surviving art comes from tombs and monuments; hence, the emphasis on life after death and the preservation of knowledge of the past.

What was the most important purpose of sculpture and wall paintings in Egyptian tombs? They protected and provided for the ka in the afterlife.

The purpose of tomb paintings was to create a pleasant afterlife for the dead person, with themes such as journeying through the afterworld, or deities providing protection. The side view of the person or animal was generally shown, and paintings were often done in red, blue, green, gold, black and yellow.

The primary purpose of grave goods was not so show off the deceased person’s status but to provide the dead with what they would need in the afterlife. The primary purpose of grave goods, though, was not so show off the deceased person’s status but to provide the dead with what they would need in the afterlife.

Chinchorro mummy

Fictional mummies can’t feel pain and, like other horror monsters, are hard to kill. The most effective way to send them to a permanent demise is to set them on fire….

Egyptian officials have cracked open a sarcophagus discovered inside an ancient tomb in Luxor to reveal a well-preserved female mummy they believe is more than 3,000 years old….

Excerebration is an ancient Egyptian mummification procedure of removal of the brain from corpses prior to actual embalming. The Egyptian mummy would then be put on its abdomen and the liquid drained through the nose hole before other embalming procedures.

An ancient Egyptian mummy has been ‘brought back to life’ after British scientists recreated its voice. The Egyptian priest, known as Nesyamun, hasn’t spoken in more than 3,000 years….

After dehydration, the mummy was wrapped in many layers of linen cloth. Within the layers, Egyptian priests placed small amulets to guard the decedent from evil. Once the mummy was completely wrapped, it was coated in a resin in order to keep the threat of moist air away.

No mummies have been found in the egyption pyramids, because the pyramids were power plants not tombs.

Eight mummies were discovered during excavations near a pyramid in Dahshur, Egypt, the country’s Ministry of Antiquities announced today. Only three of the mummies were in good condition, according to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities….

Archeologists in Egypt have unearthed 13 coffins believed to contain the remains of human mummies that were buried more than 2,500 years ago….

There is no scientific evidence that pyramid power exists.

In the X-Men: Evolution television series, the Hall of Records is located beneath the Great Sphinx and is actually a prison of the first mutant, Apocalypse.

The largest pyramid, and the largest monument ever constructed, is the Quetzalcóatl Pyramid at Cholula de Rivadavia, 101 km (63 miles) south-east of Mexico City. It is 54 m (177 ft) tall, and its base covers an area of nearly 18.2 ha (45 acres).

The Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century, attributes the loss of the nose to Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa’id al-Su’ada in AD 1378, who found the local peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest and therefore defaced the Sphinx in an …

According to his theory, Napoleon blew the nose off the Sphinx because it was a “black” nose; because the general’s “sick,” racist mind could not accept the visual evidence that black Africans had constructed the monument, and thus the complex ancient civilization of the Nile Valley, centuries before….