Les instruments d'embaumement de l'Egypte ancienne. BiEtud 125. Sculpture “The Encyclopes” collection

“The Encyclopes” collection

The archaeological questions raised by the finds from the Black Sea coast are presented in this catalogue prepared by Christine Eluère

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Collection «Signets« des Belles Lettres

This fervor for life is expressed in the beauty of the works presented

Les instruments d'embaumement de l'Egypte ancienne. BiEtud 125. Sculpture “The Encyclopes” collectionThe mummy is the pharaonic civilization's answer to the problem of death. Prepared and adorned with protective amulets to allow the deceased to continue the earthly life they knew in the afterlife, this fleshly envelope, forever protected from the ravages of time, bears the marks of the funerary rituals performed by embalmer priests. In this sense, it constitutes for modern man a prodigious source of information on the religious beliefs of the ancient