The Afterlife: A Key Factor In Ancient Egyptian Religion

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The afterlife was a key factor in the ancient egyptians religion. The life expectancy for the ancient egyptians was forty years of age at best. To the ancient egyptians, death was just a disruption of life, but they did want their lives to continue after death. That is why they didn’t care as much about death as we do. They strongly believed in preservation of the body and providing the dead with the essentials they would need for the afterlife. If the funeral/ceremony was done right after a person’s death, then the deceased would live without pain in the Fields of Yalu. The more good deeds a person did, the lighter their heart became. Anubis weighed their heart against Maat's headdress. If the heart was heavy it would be given to Ammut and