Many myths and falsehoods concerning the Egyptian practice of mummification have been promoted to the general public in movies, television shows, and documentaries. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/914/cultural--theological-background-of-mummification/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianBurial #EgyptianCulture

The Coffin Texts (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1021/the-coffin-texts/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianBookoftheDead #EgyptianBurial

Harper's songs were lyrics composed in ancient Egypt to be sung at funeral feasts and inscribed on monuments. https://www.worldhistory.org/Harper's_Songs_of_Ancient_Egypt/ #History #EgyptianBurial #EgyptianLiterature #EgyptianReligion

Herodotus’ section of his Histories on burial in ancient Egypt (Book II. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/89/herodotus-on-burial-in-egypt/ #History #Burial #EgyptianBurial #Embalming

The tombs of the great kings and nobles of Egypt were built to safeguard the corpse and possessions of the deceased for eternity and yet, while many have endured for thousands of years, their contents often disappeared relatively quickly. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1095/tomb-robbing-in-ancient-egypt/ #History #Deirel-Medina #EgyptianBurial #Pharaoh

https://www.worldhistory.org/Ghosts_in_Ancient_Egypt/ #History #EgyptianBookoftheDead #EgyptianBurial #EgyptianCulture

Is it possible to have a heart that is lighter than a feather? https://www.worldhistory.org/article/42/the-egyptian-afterlife--the-feather-of-truth/ #History #Burial #EgyptianBookoftheDead #EgyptianBurial

Ancient Egypt is defined as the civilization which flourished in North Africa between c. 6000-30 BCE – from the Predynastic Period in Egypt (c. 6000 - c. 3150 BCE) through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (323-30 BCE) before Egypt became a province of Rome. Roman Egypt (30 BCE - 646 CE) afterwards fell to the invasions of the Muslim Arabs.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1508/ten-ancient-egypt-facts-you-need-to-know/ #Egypt #EgyptianArchitecture #EgyptianBurial #History

Ancient Egypt is defined as the civilization which flourished in North Africa between c. 6000-30 BCE – from the Predynastic Period in Egypt (c. 6000 - c. 3150 BCE) through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (323-30 BCE) before Egypt became a province of Rome. Roman Egypt (30 BCE - 646 CE) afterwards fell to the invasions of the Muslim Arabs.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1508/ten-ancient-egypt-facts-you-need-to-know/ #Egypt #EgyptianArchitecture #EgyptianBurial

Burial of the dead is the act of placing the corpse of a dead person in a tomb constructed for that purpose or in a grave dug into the earth. In cultures such as Mesopotamia, tombs and graves were cut into the ground in the expectation that the soul of the individual so buried would more easily reach the afterlife which was thought to exist underground. Graves in the cultures of the ancient wor...https://www.worldhistory.org/burial/ #Burial #China #EgyptianBurial

Burial of the dead is the act of placing the corpse of a dead person in a tomb constructed for that purpose or in a grave dug into the earth. In cultures such as Mesopotamia, tombs and graves were cut into the ground in the expectation that the soul of the individual so buried would more easily reach the afterlife which was thought to exist underground. Graves in the cultures of the ancient wor...https://www.worldhistory.org/burial/ #Burial #China #EgyptianBurial