Count de Caylus states the idea of embalmment was derived from the finding of desiccated bodies which the burning sands of Egypt had hardened and preserved. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Volney and Pariaet think it was intended to obviate, in hot climates especially, danger from pestilence, being primarily a cheap and simple process, elegance and luxury coming later; and the Count de Caylus states the idea of embalmment was derived from the finding of desiccated bodies which the burning sands of Egypt had hardened and preserved. ❋ Unknown (1884)
These organizations advocate burying the dead in less intensively landscaped settings, closer to the surface, without benefit of embalmment, a casket, or even a headstone. ❋ Will (2009)
And this is the title of it, order authorizing embalmment of decedent, decedent being Anna Nicole Smith. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And we're looking forward tomorrow to moving right ahead with the embalmment. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The embalmment process took ninety days, so it would be fully three months between death and the sealing up of the opening high on the door wall; embalmer priests would shuttle to and fro with their instruments and natron, the sour, acrid salts they obtained from Lake Tritonis on the margin of the Roman African province. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
This is the title of it, order authorizing embalmment of decedent, decedent being Anna Nicole Smith will be beginning to give her peace. ❋ Unknown (2007)
What is the security of a tomb, or the perpetuity of an embalmment? ❋ Unknown (2002)
The Hyksosian tradition called for cremation, not embalmment and elaborate funeral procedures and ceremonials. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)
On the seventieth day after the Queen's death, on the night that the long ritual of her embalmment had been completed, that star had appeared suddenly in the heavens, a great red star that glowed where none had been before. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)
The other enemy dead are to be treated with all respect, and allowed embalmment and a decent burial. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)
By June, when the group went into Columbia's Hollywood studios to record, it was just about ready for embalmment. ❋ Friedman, Myra (1973)
Here it must suffice to note that in the earliest documents, i.e., the Pyramid Texts, Osiris appears as the key figure in a mortuary ritual practiced to achieve immortality by reenacting his legendary embalmment and resur - rection. ❋ S. G. F. BRANDO (1968)
The Texts show that a ritual technique of embalmment and magical revivification was performed on the dead pharaoh, following the pattern of what had once been done for Osiris. ❋ S. G. F. BRANDO (1968)
This ritual of embalmment was followed by other rites calculated to revivify the deceased as Osiris had been revivified. ❋ S. G. F. BRANDON (1968)
Consequently, a mortuary ritual was devel - oped, according to which the embalmment of the pharaoh reproduced ritually what was supposed to have been done to preserve the corpse of Osiris. ❋ S. G. F. BRANDON (1968)
A technique of ritual embalmment was developed, which was patterned on that which was believed to have been employed to revivify the divine hero Osiris after his murder by his evil brother, Set. ❋ S. G. F. BRANDON (1968)
Before the embalmment it would have been possible for Omega to restore life to his boy. ❋ Lowell Howard Morrow (N/A)
