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Ancient Egyptians had elaborate death rituals and burial practices to ensure immortality in the afterlife. They believed the soul needed to reunite with the preserved body. They mummified bodies, removing organs and storing them in canopic jars. The dried bodies were wrapped and placed in tombs with amulets, spells, and offerings to sustain the soul's journey to the afterlife.

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Ancient Egyptians had elaborate death rituals and burial practices to ensure immortality in the afterlife. They believed the soul needed to reunite with the preserved body. They mummified bodies, removing organs and storing them in canopic jars. The dried bodies were wrapped and placed in tombs with amulets, spells, and offerings to sustain the soul's journey to the afterlife.

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Ancient Egyptians had elaborate death rituals and burial practices to ensure immortality in the afterlife. They believed the soul needed to reunite with the preserved body. They mummified bodies, removing organs and storing them in canopic jars. The dried bodies were wrapped and placed in tombs with amulets, spells, and offerings to sustain the soul's journey to the afterlife.

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Death rituals in ancient Egypt were very important.

They believed that putting spells,

mummifying the bodies and grave goods were a necessity to ensure immortality after death.

The Egyptians would mummify the bodies because they believed that it is preparing them for

the afterlife and that their soul is needed to be reunited with the body to live on in the afterlife.

They would remove all the soft tissue organs, the liver, the stomach, the intestines, lungs etc.

This helped to slow down the decomposition process of the body. They would place the organs

in separate jars called canopic jars and each jar had a specific animal head one it each one

representing a god that would protect the organs. After the body was covered in natron and left

to dehydrate in 40 days. After the 40 days were up they would come and wash the body off with

water from the Nile and then put oils on the skin to ensure longevity. They would wrap the body

in linen from head to toe. When the body was ready to be put in the tomb they put amulets with

the body to help protect them and in the afterlife.

Before a body is put into the tomb they would cast magic spells over the body to help

them find their way into the afterlife, to protect the body. These spells were also to be engraved

into the walls of the tomb to ensure that they will last forever. They had a book of spells called

the Book of the dead. Heka is the god of magic and she would ensure these spells. Some of

these spells helped them to get to the gods in the afterlife like Osiris.

They believed that after someone has died that their spiritual body would live on forever

in the afterlife which is why they did these things to ensure that this would happen. During the

funerals they would bring offers for the body such as food, treasures, spells, ritual objects. They

would put grave goods into the tomb like copper, beads, amulets, pots and personal belongings

that helped to protect them and to sustenance in the afterlife.

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