Return of the Mummy

When Tutankatun brought people here, he happened to see such a situation.The only good thing is that there are not many bugs, only about a dozen or so... Tutankton didn't have time and didn't bother to look at the pale faces of the others, so he quickly ordered: "Quick, go and kill them with a bronze shield!" There's no way this thing can be set on fire -- it's crawling incredibly fast.

After everyone finally smashed the beetle into meatloaf, poured lamp oil on the meatloaf, and ignited the fire, they all relaxed when they saw the flaming and foul-smelling mass. As for the dying Mai who was tortured by the beetle before, , everyone subconsciously ignored it.

You must know that the beetle had crawled to his heart at that time, and although someone forced him to pick out the beetle and smashed it flat and burned it, a hole had been bitten out of his heart by the beetle.

Bypassing Mayi who was twitching on the ground, Tutankaton walked towards Pharaoh Akhnaton lying on the couch with a rare and steady pace at his age.

Akhnaton's face is very long, which also makes his facial features stretched and slender. He usually doesn't look very good-looking, and his blue-gray face at this time is even more frightening.But Tutankatun didn't seem to notice this, and knelt down on one knee beside Akhnaton: "Father, how are you?"

Although Akhenaten has always been arrogant, he still understands his physical condition very well. At this time, he turned his head to look at his youngest son with difficulty, raised his hand, and put his palm on Tutankaton's. On the head: "... Tutanktun... my son..."

When Smenka Rui rushed to the palace, he just saw a group of ministers coming out in a file.In an instant, a feeling of uneasiness slowly rose from his heart.

Especially when he saw that stinky boy Tutankatun had red eyes and tears on his face, but when he saw himself, the corner of his mouth curled into an imperceptible arc.

Smenkarui felt his whole body was a little stiff. He froze for a moment, and suddenly wanted to break into Akhnaton's bedroom: "...Where is the father?! Who are you showing this look! I want to see you Father!"

"Brother," Tutankatun's voice was not loud, but it miraculously silenced the yelling Smenkarui.Seeing this, Prime Minister Ayi looked at Tutankatun with a flash of satisfaction in his eyes.Looking at the person who still turned his back to him, Tutankhatun said with sadness, "Don't disturb the father, the father, guided by the god Anubis, has returned to the embrace of the goddess Isis."

Although Isis is not only the goddess who guards the dead, but also the goddess who represents life and health, Smenkari will never be naive because what Tutankhatun said means the latter two meanings.

"You..." Smenkarui turned around stiffly, and looked at Tutankaton, who was only a little above his waist, with an unfriendly expression, "What did the father say? Pharaoh... who is it?"

Prime Minister Ayi looked at Smenkarui's performance in disapproval, and shook his head secretly.Just as he was about to say something, Tutankatun spoke first: "Brother, I think the top priority now is not to be entangled in these matters, but to deal with the father's affairs first." A little bit grumpy, but this made him feel in the hearts of all the ministers that this little child is more stable and worth cultivating.

Seeing the ferociousness that flashed across Smenkarui's face because of his words and the faintly changed attitudes of the surrounding ministers, Tutankhatun's inner villain evoked a smug and somewhat disdainful smile, but his face was unsatisfactory. Xian: "By the way, Ayi, my father must be used to Mai's service, so when the time comes, I will also make Mai into a mummy and put it in my father's tomb to guard. And that Kaiyadmidani... ...The king father said, let the queen mother handle it."

Although he has not yet succeeded to the throne, compared to the queen mother and the ministers who are all on his side, as long as he does not lose his life before succeeding to the throne, the pharaoh's position is settled for him.

Of course, at this time he can directly call the prime minister by his name.I have to say that although Tutankhatun has been a pharaoh for ten years, he is still a little childlike (?) at this time. When he saw Smenkarui and heard himself shouting the word "Ayi", that look He looked like he had eaten something bad, well, he was indeed in a good mood.

If he felt sad, he probably did, but because he had already grieved once in his previous life, and his mind at this time was different from his previous life, so Tutankatun quickly changed his mentality.

It can even be said with some cruelty that if Akhnaton does not die, there is basically no possibility of Tutankatun's plans being realized-according to Akhnaton's self-willed character, he will never agree with Tutankaton's ideas of.

When Holunhib heard the news, Nefertiti also came here from Thebes with her daughters.

Regardless of whether they were rich or poor, high or low, the ancient Egyptians were mummified after death. The ancient Egyptians believed that human beings were composed of body and soul. Even in the world of the underworld, the dead still needed their own bodies.

In their view, a person's corpse is not a "useless body", and this body is not just a container for the soul, but a connection of the soul.

As long as the body remains intact, giving the soul a place to live, the dead can be reincarnated.

As a matter of course, as a pharaoh, Ekhnaton made mummies in a more complicated and expensive way.So his mummification process took the longest, seventy days.

During this time, Nefertiti had returned from Thebes.As for Kayadmidani, after being handed over to Nefertiti, she lived up to Tutankaton's memory and ordered Kiyadmidani to be mummified alive.

And because she pretended to be a "Goddess" and assassinated Pharaoh, Nefertiti, public and private, would not let her go.In the end, at the proposal of the high priest, Kaiyadmidani was sentenced to the cruel "worm-eating" punishment.

The so-called "insect bite" is a very terrible punishment. The victim will have his eyes gouged out and his tongue cut off.In addition, they have to be mummified alive and put into an iron coffin. The coffin is not filled with potions and spices, but hundreds of densely packed carnivorous scarabs.

The most frightening part is here. Although his eyes were gouged out and his tongue was cut out, the sinner was still alive, but his body was tightly bound by thick bandages so that he could not move.Even if the flesh is wrapped, as soon as they come into contact with those hungry carnivorous scarabs, those greedy guys can't wait to open their mouths and start to bite, and sinners who suffer this kind of punishment can feel the scarabs in their bodies when they are dying. crawl.

After solving the matter of Kiyadmidani, in a few days after Ekhnaton's mummy is finished, it will be the "opening" ceremony of Ekhnaton's mummy.

The opening ceremony is very important for mummies, because of its importance, this ceremony lasted very long.After all, it has a variety of rituals, and the various rituals are specific to various parts of the body, such as the seven incision parts of the head, four parts of the internal organs, two feet and two arms, And chest and back and so on.

After the opening ceremony is over, the prepared mummy is put into a human-shaped coffin.It was also at this time that Hollenhib learned that the resplendent human-shaped coffins seen in the Ancient Egyptian Museum did not exist from the very beginning.

In the era of the Old Kingdom, the shape of the coffin was only a simple rectangle. Before that, the coffin was square, and the arms and legs of the deceased could only be put in if they were bent.

The famous human-shaped coffin was invented in the Middle Kingdom.It was not until the New Kingdom period—that is, this period—that human coffins became popular.

Moreover, those strong and exquisite sarcophagi have always been exclusive items that can only be used by pharaohs and a few dignitaries.

Well, thinking about how he would lie down in this thing in the future, Horunhib shuddered for some reason.

Because Akhnaton had already started building his own mausoleum, all these things were well prepared.Like the portraits on the coffins that are all covered with gold leaf and various decorative paintings on the human-shaped coffins.

Most of the decorative paintings are inscribed and filled with mysterious spells, images of gods, scenes from the underworld and fragments of everyday life.In the eyes of the Egyptians, the coffin decorated with mysterious words and patterns is the umbrella for the dead to resist evil forces.

Because he was busy with Akhnaton's affairs during this period of time, Tutankatun was stunned for a moment when he was told that Ajilu, who had been under house arrest, had escaped.Compared to the astonishment of Queen Nefertiti and Queen Taiyi, Tutankaton just frowned—he remembered that Akilu had also escaped at this time.

Tsk, he should have killed Ajilu directly without giving anyone a chance, but he knew how much loss it would bring to Egypt if he let Ajilu go back.

But...Tutankatun squinted his eyes. In the last life, he lost the land of Egypt because of Akilu, but in this life, why can't he use the rebellious Akilu to deal with Hittites...and then...expand Egypt What about the territory?

So when Nefertiti proposed whether to send pursuers to capture the escaped Akilu, Tutankaton rejected the proposal, and instead sent a team of troops to escort Akilu—at least to ensure that Akilu Kilu and his gang can return to Amulu alive.

Probably because there is no pressure from the mountain of Akhnaton, what Tutankatun has done during this period is completely beyond the level that a nine-year-old child can perform.But Tutanktun didn't think about "hiding clumsy" again. He is the future pharaoh of Egypt - he was born as a human being, so why should he act according to other people's faces? !

Therefore, when Akhnaton's human-shaped golden coffin was buried and the mausoleum was closed, it happened that the sun god "Ra" sank, and the whole of Egypt was soaked in orange light and was as bright red as blood...

When the sun god "Ra" withdrew the last ray of light and darkness enveloped the earth, it marked the end of the era belonging to a pharaoh - Akhenaten.

The era belonging to Pharaoh Tutankhamun is coming.

The author has something to say: Aww...I finally finished writing Ekhnaton...Aw, oh, it's not easy...Aw, oh...I'm exhausted...

By the way, in order not to waste your ** coins, here is the method of making mummies in the sand =V=:

Herodotus talks about three methods of making mummies in "History".

Among them, the first one is the most perfect and is adopted by princes and ministers. The production steps are as follows: