Items Buried With The Dead

    In Ancient Egypt they believed that the afterlife is the life that follows death.  The Egyptians would need supplies for the afterlife.  Everything the body needed was required and packed in the tomb with the body.  The Egyptians had a strong belief that was so important to them that they would get ready beforehand for the burial and death.  Writing material were often supplied with, clothing, wigs, hair-dressing supplies, and consisted various kinds of tools.  Food was provided for the no longer living.  In the tomb there would be a jar of intestinal organs.  In order to do that they would embalm.  The mummy in the tomb was thought to be the house of the ba after death.  The ba is an Ancient Egyptian belief that a spirit is released at the time of a persons death which represents the character or personality. A mummy's tomb was identified as the, "Underworld".  It is where the mummy remained motionless while it's ba traveled freely throughout the mysterious spaces seeking to unite with it's ka.  The ka is an ancient Egyptian belief that a spirit released at the time of a persons death resembling the dead person in every respect.  On the wall in the tomb they would usually show depictions of the other world which was the afterlife.  

These are picture of items that they could of brought with them.


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