Afterlife In Ancient Egypt

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The afterlife of the Egyptians was a very big part of their culture and religion. They believed that death was only a temporary interruption, in the transition between life and death. This is the main reason that Egyptians make death and the afterlife such a big deal. There were many different attributes to what the Egyptians believed about the afterlife. Those sections were mummification, burial site, and the tomb. Each of these things they did with extreme detail. The mummification was considered to be the most important part of the death of an individual. If the body and the internal organs were not properly preserved the person wouldn’t be able to make the journey from life to the afterlife. Not all the internal organs were preserved, for example, the doctors in ancient Egypt were very advanced for their time, but they didn’t know what the brain did. They knew that the heart was important but they didn’t know anything about the brain. So instead of preserving the brain in a canopic jar they used a tool to just pull all …show more content…
Then the body would be left to fry out for 70 days. After that they would pack the body with spices and fragrant things to make the body not smell like a usual decaying body. Now the body was wrapped in linen placed in a wooden coffin, that was placed in a golden sarcophagus, and that was placed in their tomb.
The burial site was handpicked by the pharaoh when he was choosing where he wanted to be buried. This normally happened very soon after the pharaoh came into rule, and the preparations were started immediately. The pyramids ranged in many different sizes, usually the longer the pharaoh was alive the bigger the pyramid. The reason for this was, once the building of a pyramid started, it never stopped. As long as the pharaoh lived the builder and architects just kept adding layers to the pyramid, or they added tunnels to the underground aspect of the

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