Fun interactive site about Egyptian mummies

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Fascinating Egyptian Mummies–Unwrapping history with science

This fun and educational four-stage interactive site is based on an exhibition at the Musee de la Civilisation in Quebec City.  Visitors discover different facets of ancient Egyptian cultures.  You must complete three games to enter the last one (which I haven’t achieved yet).

1. Mummification Process.  Put the mummification process in the right order.
2. Canopic Jars.  Place the organs into the right canopic jars.
3. The Weighing of the Heart.  Place the jar that contains a heart as light as the sacred feather on the other side of the scale.
4. Sarcophagi Chamber.  Can’t say what this is becuase I havent completed the first three stages.

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Interesting information about #3

“Ancient Egyptians believed that the deceased had to meet a challenge in order to achieve immortality.  After the deceased declared having committed no faults in life, the heart was weighed.  If it balanced with the feather, this meant that the deceased had lived according to moral standards and could move on to the afterlife, a realm of bliss and delight.  But if the weight of the heart was different from that of the feather, this meant that the deceased had lived in sin and that the heart would be eaten by Ammit, the devourer.”

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Source

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