Damascus-Sana
Archaeological excavations revealed that the ancient Palmyra knew a high level of mummification developed based on their religious beliefs of the existence of life after death, which indicates the evolving scientific level of Palmyra civilization, which gave mankind a great legacy of science and knowledge.
These and other points were reviewed by the Director of the Palmyra Museum, Dr. Khalil Hariri, during a lecture he gave in the culture of Abu Rummana. It is the house of eternity, comfort and eternity.
The director of the museum that the Palmyra residents thought of mummification to preserve the bodies of their dead as a way to preserve them, especially since it was used in the ancient world to develop special materials and drugs that save them for thousands of years.
He pointed to the devastating religious temples dedicated to the worship of many religious gods, most of them linked to their belief in the ability to resurrect and renew life, and the return of the soul to the dead and stability of the mummified body, noting that the controversy of mummification when the Palmyra was in the lack of finding mummies in the tombs of Palmyra and the lack of interest of scientists and researchers to study.
Mummification reached Palmyra, according to Hariri, late in the year 100 BC, after it was confined to Egypt, explaining that the difference between them was in the method of dislocation of the brain and viscera and wrapping method in addition to the materials used in the process of mummification. Especially religious belief.
He concluded his lecture to destroy a great city with its treasures of precious and inexhaustible starting with the triumphal arch, theater and temples through columns and crowns decorated and defensive walls and the diversity of its burials not to mention its museum, which contains between the halls of the product of its people and their arts and sculptures and the beautiful oasis which shows the genius of its people Distinctive art and creativity.
Shatha Hammoud