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

The Egyptians tended to use religion and mythology as a substitute for science, but when we look at the process of mummification and the removal of the internal organs within this process, we can see that this would have required tremendous accuracy and skill. In today’s society you would be required to have a PhD in medicine and to have studied for over 5 years in order to obtain this sort of knowledge.

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.

The Egyptians painted idealised scenes from daily life on the wall of their tombs: scenes of agricultural work, such as harvesting crops, tending cattle and fishing, scenes of artisans at their work, including gold workers and boat builders and domestic scenes of banquets with musicians, dancers and guests. The scenes in the tombs represented the hoped for after life, in which there were fertile fields and harmony and happiness at home; representing it in the tomb was thought to ensure and idealistic existence in the next world.

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

The ability to observe the decay of a body and to be able to use it to preserve a body in such a method demonstrates extremely high levels of intelligence.

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