For
People who buried their dead with rituals and funerary practices did so with reverence for their dead. They wanted them to lie in peace, undisturbed. We must respect their sentiments.
OR Against
People in ancient times had some beliefs and followed funerary rituals. By investigating into them we can know much about them. It adds to our knowledge about the progress of human civilization in different parts of the world.
Give reasons for the following.
(i) King Tut’s body has been subjected to repeated scrutiny.
(ii) Howard Carter’s investigation was resented.
(iii) Carter had to chisel away the solidified resins to raise the king’s remains.
(iv) Tut’s body was buried along with gilded treasures.
(v) The boy king changed his name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun.
(i) List the deeds that led Ray Johnson to describe Akhenaten as “wacky”.
(ii) What were the results of the CT scan?
(iii) List the advances in technology that have improved forensic analysis.
(iv) Explain the statement, “King Tut is one of the first mummies to be scanned — in death, as in life...”
airship flagship lightship |
Temperature | Pressure thermometer A | Pressure thermometer B |
Triple-point of water | 1.250 × 10\(^5\) Pa | 0.200 × 10\(^5\) Pa |
Normal melting point of sulphur | 1.797× 10\(^5\) Pa | 0.287 × 10\(^5\) Pa |