Death and the Ancient Egyptians
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I can explain how some aspects of the way Ancient Egyptians treated dead bodies changed, whilst others stayed the same.
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The Ancient Egyptians believed in many gods; one of these was Anubis, who guided the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
The Ancient Egyptians believed that when they died they would go to the afterlife if they had pleased the gods.
They believed that everybody had a soul, and that when somone was dead, their soul returned to their body each night.
This led them to try and preserve dead bodies with linen and by drying them in sand but with only partial success.
By the end of the Old Kingdom they had started to embalm and mummify the bodies, placing the organs in canopic jars.
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