Burial Practices In Ancient Egypt

vi) Burial Practices
The burial practices in Ancient Egypt were intricate and they preserved it through the ancient times. This was done due to their belief that it is important in order to guarantee immortality of the dead after their death. Their burial practices consist of preserving the body of the dead by a form called mummification. Family members of wealthy families, who were able to afford such ceremonies, had the body artificially mummified and buried in stone tombs. These practices involved the process of taking the body to a tent where an embalmer will wash the body with good-smelling palm wine, removing the internal organs, except for the heart, and placing them in canopic jars. The body is then covered in natron to dry out all the remaining liquids inside and outside the body. Another process of washing and stuffing was done after 4 days and finally the body was wrapped in linen.
At the start of the New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt, the Egyptians began burying books and a shabti along with the dead to their manual labor in the afterlife. After the mummification of the dead, they were buried and ceremonies were then done that accompanied the burial. It was mandatory for the family to bring their deceased family member food and perform, by reciting, a prayer on behalf of the departed.

The Ancient Egyptian Régime
The first government or régime to have absolute control over a whole nation was developed by the Ancient Egyptian civilization. It was the first ever government that was established in the history of the world. Ancient Egypt was ruled by a Pharaoh, a name given to the ruler of Ancient Egypt regardless of the gender, and ruled the Upper and Lower Egypt in both politics and religion. This resulted in the Pharaoh e...

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... and writings were in the form of symbols called hieroglyphics. Each hieroglyphic stand for a word or a sound or even a silent determinative. They can also stand for different words or phrases in different contexts. There are more than 2000 symbols that can be read in rows or columns. The hieroglyphics were mostly used in monuments and tombs, however, scribes used a different form of writing, which was faster and easier than writing in hieroglyphics, called cursive script and are written and read from right to left in a horizontal way.
Around the year 500 BC a new form of writing, the Demotic in which the formal way of writing hieroglyphics were written alongside the Greek text on the Rosetta Stone, came into light. It was phonetic, semi-alphabetical and a language that can be spoken in, which later developed into a language of religion, culture and literature.