Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> I wouldn't count on the alternative being
> "abdomination". According to an estimation only
>


some 10% of all bodies were mummified in AE. The
> rest was buried in the ground.


Only 10% ? So, it seems that, after all, mummification was less important than we think with regard to the Afterlife ..... Or, it was too expensive for most people.


Ronald.



This is very
> probably the origin of texts composed to keep off
> the worms and the putrification (now that was a
> horror!). Fat chance in the Delta area, though.
>
>
> Ritva