How To Make An Egyptian Coffin
Align the ruler.
How to make an egyptian coffin. Draw your own face onto the sarcophagus. Things you ll need pictures of mummy caskets. Lightweight cardboard such as a pastry box shirt stiffeners or file folders. Cup or other small circular object.
The ancient egyptians made glue from boiled animal cartilage and bone and also coated their coffins with a form of plaster. For paint mineral powders were added to mixtures of egg white gelatin or gum. Glue the sarcophagus template to a piece of card stock. Then on the top glue on or paint on bits of turquoise and other gems or paint on a.
Remove the shoe box lid and choose one of the shoe box s two short sides. Decorate the mummy coffin craft. Locate the short side that you cut in step 1. How to build an ancient egyptian tomb for a school project create the mummy.
Cut the sarcophagus out removing the excess card stock. These practices helped increase a coffin s security and created a smooth surface for decoration. How to make an ancient egyptian coffin out of a shoe box step 1. The egyptians believed that the dead body had to be recognizable to the spirits so they painted faces on the front.
Cut along the bottom of each of the shoe box s long sides. The mummy consists of a linen wrapped body. How to make an egyptian coffin our latest book featuring the work of the fitzwilliam museum s egyptian coffins project has just been published. Using the results from detailed analyses of the wooden structure of the inner coffin of nespawershefyt and the composition of its decorative layers the book reveals the skill of the egyptian.
Almost the entire coffin was decorated with.