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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