
The Mystery of Mummies (Dr. Bob Brier, Ancient Egypt)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
What Is a Sarcoma?
Mummies were deposited in objects was we sometimes just call them coffins but they're also known as sarcophagus or sarcophagi. That's a term that comes from Greek what does it mean and why are they called that? A sarcophagus by definition is stone. Now the reason it's called a flesh eater is when the Greeks came into Egypt and opened these sarcophagi and inside they saw a mummy. And the mummy had been desiccated by mummification and dehydrated. So they called the boxes flesh eaters. Or sometimes if the if the mummification hadn't been done well, you might be left with only bones. Then you'd really think it
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