Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 119
ed that the want ofground for cemeteries, and also the excavations made in the moun-tains for the extraction of materials employed in the immense * Hence it is evident the Egyptians did not believe in the resurrection of the body. MUMMIES. 97 buildings of Egypt, compelled them to have recourse to… … EGYPTIAN MUMMY CASE. building of the pyramids and tombs, because vestiges of mummieshave been found in the oldest of these, and, in fact, the first mum-mies were buried in the sand before the Egyptians possessed thenecessary tools for excavating sepulchres in the rock. The earliest n 98 HANDBOOK OF…
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