How to make a mummy - Len Bloch
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As anyone who’s seen a mummy knows, ancient Egyptian priests went to a lot of trouble to evade decomposition. But how successful were they? Len Bloch details the mummification process and examines its results thousands of years later.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Len Bloch
- Animator Nadav Arbel
- Sound Designer Stephen LaRosa
- Artist Shahar Kober
- Narrator Susan Zimmerman
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This is gross, but cool.
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this is very gross but, wow it's hard to make!!!!
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Mummification process
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Lol it was nice but a lot gross
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I am the flash
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This was very interesting!
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I love learning about mummies!
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yucky but efficacely
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I like mummies, although it is yucky, I love watching this video.
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Very interesting.
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Why was so much respect paid to dead bodies and why sustenance of corpse was so important in egyp...
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Nice experience with this lesson in an Italian classroom, amusingly disgusting sometimes but it r...
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Mummification
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I knew now
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This was interesting but disgusting
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cool
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It's very gross
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I loved watching the video really cool now I know how to make a mummy.
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Gross but interesting.
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it is gross, but they did what they had to do to preserve the bodies
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One step of the process explained how mummies are left out in the desert for 35 days. How did the...
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ok
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Mummification
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Its cool
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how mummification came to be.
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Wow
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Mummies
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How They Took Out Their Brains!
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Mashing of the brain
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Gross
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removing their organs
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why is mummification so important now days
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Why do they drain out the brain disgusting
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Ew
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MASSAGED IT?!
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WHAT
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LIKE SALAMI?
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I LOVE SALAMI
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SALTED LIKE SALAMI?? WHAT
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Mummies
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I can't believe there was air pollution in ancient Egyptian times!
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So very insightful :)
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this is disgusting
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its interestiing
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Mummies!
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Very interesting that they had pollution!
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scawy but cool lol
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why
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Egyptian mummification process
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Me personally I would never let that happen to me :)
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I learned about this in class, but this video helped me even more. MY TEACHER SAID THAT MUMMY'S A...
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Very Interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!♡
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hot take: mummies are lowkey cool but gross.
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Gross but interesting.
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