| Cowpeas, known in Bemba as ilanda, were used for the embalmment. |
| In doing so, they suggest a way forward for a city in which preservation is all too often a form of embalmment. |
| But they discover an excavation beneath The Center that turns out to be Plato's Cave, and the discovery saves them from a living embalmment as satisfied simulacra. |
| She and Virgie paid for their mother's embalmment, the funeral, the flights of relatives who attended the ceremony, a nine-day wake, and food for the guests. |
| An elaborate ritual of embalmment was designed to save the corpse from decomposition and restore its faculties so that it could live in a well-equipped tomb. |
| Because the Egyptians believed that the body was essential for a proper afterlife, a complex process of ritual embalmment was established. |
