The Egyptians were liberal and yet had admirable conviction and commitment to their religion and faith. They lived, not for today but for the amazing life and journey they were sure was awaiting them in death.

They relied on the nature around them to help understand their place in the universe and their mythology centred itself on the things closest to the Egyptians, the sun, the earth, the sky and the Nile. They were not afraid to die as dying meant living.

The Egyptian attitude to life and death was influenced by two fundamental beliefs, the first was that death was simply an interruption rather than a complete cessation of life and secondly that eternal life could be insured by various means, including: piety to the gods, the preservation of the body through mummification and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment. The complexity and gradual elaboration of the Egyptian belief system has been explored by E

gyptologists, thanks to surviving funerary artefacts and tombs from ancient Egyptian times.

The body was the bridge, the dividing element between this life and the afterlife. Death played a big part in the way Egyptians understood the body as the body served as a token of entrance into the afterlife. The process of mummification demonstrated by the Egyptians emphasizes just how important a role the body played in death, the preservation of the body was an essential part of ancient Egyptian funerary practice and was the timeliest, costly and most sophisticated of the rituals practised by the culture.

In is not necessary to go into great depth about the pyramids. What can be said however is that the only differentiation between the civilisation then and now has to do with time and labour. The Egyptians constructed these fascinatingly complex pieces of Architecture that illustrated a level of civilisation far beyond their time through simple mechanisms and hard working labour men who would often not live to see the end result.

The Egyptians were a far more civilised culture than given credit for, their attitudes to death may seem extreme but their everyday culture and social structure within their community demonstrated high levels of civilisation, especially when looking at their predecessors.

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