. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. wasthe universal custom to embalm the bodies of the Joseph commanded his servants the physicians toembalm his father: and the physicians embalmed forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilledthe days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptiansmourned for him threescore and ten days. Gen. 50: 2, when Joseph died years afterwards they embalmedhim, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Gen. 50: 26. The natural conditions in Egypt were conduc
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. wasthe universal custom to embalm the bodies of the Joseph commanded his servants the physicians toembalm his father: and the physicians embalmed forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilledthe days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptiansmourned for him threescore and ten days. Gen. 50: 2, when Joseph died years afterwards they embalmedhim, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Gen. 50: 26. The natural conditions in Egypt were conducive to thepreservation of the body after death. Without rainfall andwith a very dry atmosphere, it was not a difficult matter toarrest decomposition, and the bodies became dry and hard-ened lumps of clay. Some have thought that the preserva-tion of the body through so many centuries did not agreewith the Bible statement, Dust thou art and unto dustthou shalt return; but the real meaning here is that thebody, being made of earth, shall return to the earth again,and the old mummies are only preserved portions of the. Embalming. From the AncientTombs. xg4 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. earth—the dust simply kept in the form wh?ch was givenit in creation. It is, however, no less earth than if it werepulverized and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Our knowledge of the way the Egyptians embalmedtheir dead is obtained from the Greek, historians, and by a careful examination of themummified bodies. Accord-ing; to Herodotus, the art wascarried on by a professionalbody of men, appointed bylaw, and this is in accordancewith the Scripture quoted,Joseph commanded his serv-ants the physicians to em-balm Jacob. There weremen duly appointed to attend to this work. A body might be embalmed in three different waysand the price varied accordingly. In the first and most ex-pensive method used, the brain and viscera were entirelyremoved from the body, washed in palm wine, and after be-ing cover
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