ANCIENT EGYPT

Egypt is a long standing civilisation in north east africa. they hold WHS including great pyramids, the sphinx.They also hold very treasured monuments such as King Tut's tomb [ a famous pharoah of egypt] and many more tombs. They are the creators of mummies.

They write in a form of lauguage called "heiroglyphics" It was little pictures each resembling a letter of the alphabet. hieroglyphs could be written left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up. it was written on a thing called papyrus. It was a type of paper [this is where the word paper comes from] made of rice.

A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death. Normally when we die, bacteria and other germs eat away at the soft tissues (such as skin and muscles) leaving only the bones behind. Since bacteria need water in order to grow, mummification usually happens if the body dries out quickly after death. The body may then be so well preserved that we can even tell how the dead person may have looked in life.
Mummies are made naturally or by embalming, which is any process that people use to help preserve a dead body. Mummies can be dried out by extreme cold, by the sun, by smoke, or using chemicals such as natron. Some bodies become mummies because there were favorable natural conditions when they died. Others were preserved and buried with great care.
The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a person's body after death was essential to ensure a safe passage to the afterlife.