. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . d over this laid a thick layer of stuffs. Hisart, transmitted to the embalmers, was the regular means of transforminginto mummies all bodies which it was desired to preserve. If there werehills at hand, thither the mummied dead were still borne, partly from custom,partly because the dryness of the air and of the soil offered them a furtherchance of In districts of the Delta where the hills wereso distant as to make it very costly to reach them, advantage was taken ofthe smallest sandy islet rising above the marshes, and there a ce
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . d over this laid a thick layer of stuffs. Hisart, transmitted to the embalmers, was the regular means of transforminginto mummies all bodies which it was desired to preserve. If there werehills at hand, thither the mummied dead were still borne, partly from custom,partly because the dryness of the air and of the soil offered them a furtherchance of In districts of the Delta where the hills wereso distant as to make it very costly to reach them, advantage was taken ofthe smallest sandy islet rising above the marshes, and there a cemetery was 1 Such was the appearance of the bodies of Coptic monks of the sixth, eighth, and ninth centuries,■which I found in the convent cemeteries of Contra-Syene, Taud, and Akhmîm, right in the midst ofthe desert. 2 For the primitive mode of burial in hides, and the rites which originated in connection■with it, cf. Lefébdeb, Etudes sur Abydos, ii., in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archxology,1892-93, vol. xv. pp.
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