Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna: Amulets: Ab or Ib, the heart.The ancient Egyptians believed that it was the seat of all emotions, therefore superior in functionality to the brain.Without this organ, life after death is unthinkable, therefore it was the only one that was left in place during embalming, while all the other organs were removed and placed, corresponding to the cardinal points, in the canopic jars of the sons of Horus.The word ib indicates the heart in the moral sense and also as memory and courage, desire, skill, love, thought, wisdom and satisfaction.
