Paper About Mummies

I went to the the Mummies of the World exhibit at the Leonardo in Salt Lake. This exhibit displays some different mummies from varying time periods. The exhibit not only presents mummies, it also shows some different statues and artifacts found with the mummies. The most prominent mummies were the ancient Egyptian ones, but there were also ones from places around Europe. I chose to focus on some of the Egyptian artifacts because of the details and meaning behind them. The first artifact I wanted to focus on were the ushabtiu. An ushabti is an ancient Egyptian statue that was buried with the dead. It was believed that these statues would turn into servants in the afterlife. There were many different statues on display. Some of them were made up of different colored materials and had different

They were pretty small, and there were about twelve of them, but they were very interesting to me. I really liked the differing colors of material that were utilized and the detail that was put into it.

I could see that the inscriptions had a lot of meaning in them because of how they were done. The statue as a whole was very impressive, considering the time period and the tools that were available to do this.

The ushabtiu were very unique and eye catching because of the different colors. The figures were very detailed, but not very lifelike. The proportions were not human, but that was how it was done in the ancient Egypt times. They were a very impressive art considering what they had to work with. Overall, the ushabti statues were very impressive in many ways.

The second artifact I wanted to focus on was a sarcophagus belonging to a priest called Nes Hor. The sarcophagus was different than most because it was painted black. The sarcophagus had small engravings all over it, each of them had a different meaning. It had a very unique look, and it was extremely