Shelters for Eternity: Ancient

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This is the lecture about "Shelters for Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi". The lecturer is Aidan Dodson from the University of Bristol. He talked about how the early dynasties in Egypt used to let the mummy lie of the left side of the rectangular coffins. And inside the rectangular coffins it had drawings of the maps of the underworld. It indicates some kind of magical machine, which could transfer the life from this world to the next world. There were also some painted offerings inside the coffin for the dead.

The first Anthropoid coffin, (first human looking coffin) was made around the 12th dynasty, they are wonderfully decorates, it contains an extended mask coffin covering the

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