The same way poor went to the afterlife. When anyone dies, the soul is carried away by the guardians, angels, watchers, or spirits of some kind who are tasked with ferrying the souls into their place in the other world.
The Egyptians decided to mummify the rich/pharaohs because their belief in afterlife
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the Egyptians believed that what they placed in the tombs would go to with them to the afterlife. :) <3
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The egyptians belief that the deities were the goddess and beliefs that the after life is a place were only the important people go. But they have to pass a test to go to the afterlife.
The idea of the afterlife appealed to the ancient Egyptians because they thought that one day the people they put in the pyramids would rise for the dead and would go into the afterlife.
Pyramids were meant to make you immortal in the afterlife, this is what happened to him. Edit; Pyramids were also made to help in the afterlife, so the egyptians put heaps of gold and stuff in there, so that he could be rich in the afterlife.
Egyptians believed that what they placed in the tombs would go to them to the afterlife
They were filled with art and jewelry because Egyptians believed that these would help the rich person (only rich people were burried inside pyramids) go through the tough journey to afterlife peacefully.
So the spirits could go to the afterlife
the ancient Egyptians brought food to the afterlife because they believed that there was a second life after you died and they wouldn't want you to go to the afterlife hungry and nothing to eat.i heart ray ray from secret admirer
the Egyptians believed that what they placed in the tombs would go to with them to the afterlife! Your welcome <3 :)