after death Egyptians believed you would have a second life because when the sun set the egyptians thought of it has a person dying and when the sun rose the egyptians thought of a person being born again and after you were mummified then the egyptians thought that you would go to the underworld and your heart would get weighed with a feather and if your heart was lighter then the feather or the exact same then your afterlife would be filled with joy and wondwerful activities but if your heart was heavier then you did alot of evil in your life and your afterlife would be miserable and filled with hard work
The afterlife was a main concern of the Egyptian civilization.
The tombs of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs and nobility are filled with items that would be needed in the Egyptian afterlife. Also the uncovered writings of the ancient Egyptians speak about the afterlife.
The ancient Egyptian belived in afterlife. And that was why the mummified the dead in preparation for this.
They did not do anything. It was part of their belief.
The afterlife
Mummification
Heaven.
The book of the dead.
Embalming
Pharohs and their belongings to help them trough the afterlife
the answer is 50 to 100 thousand years
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