Amulets and Symbolism
Children, women and men wore amulets in life and in death. Necklaces, rings, earrings, brooches, crowns, circlets, bracelets, wrist bands, arm bands and wide jeweled collars often displayed images of gods and goddesses. They used specific symbols, such as the scarab and the ankh, for protective purposes on jewelry, clothing and accessories.
Embalmers wrapped amulets in the wrappings for the dead, creating the distinctive mummies that continue to fascinate museum goers and students of Egyptology to this day. Among the more bizarre forms this fascination took was the practice of grinding up mummies for medicine in the Victorian era.