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Question 55

An embalmer leaves one organ in place because Egyptian belief connects it with identity and judgment. Which organ is it?

  1. Brain tissue
  2. The liver
  3. HeartCorrect answer
  4. A lung

Explanation

The heart was often retained because Egyptians assigned it an important role in personal identity and postmortem judgment. The brain is a familiar modern center of identity, but that modern association does not fit the funerary belief in the prompt.

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