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They were called embalming Preists. They wore a mask of Anubis (the god of mummification) and read spells from the book of the dead.
Mummification is the process that was used on all Egyptian Pharaohs, as well as some other Egyptians who were wealthy. It was done in the tombs.
It was the belief of the ancient Egyptians that the way they would experience the afterlife as a soul or "ka" would be influenced by the way their body is prepared through mummification.
The process before burial is called mummification. Some Pharaohs were buried in the pyramids.
Mummification is the process that was used on all Egyptian Pharaohs, as well as some other Egyptians who were wealthy. It was done in the tombs.
Osiris was the Ancient Egyptain god of the dead. He took the people into the afterlife. He had the appearnace of a mummified person usually with a green colored face and a body that was wrapped in linen (cloth used for mumification process that is ninety days long). He also was the god for fertilty and he ruled or domuinated the afterlife. He was known as the god of the underworld.
The deities they mostly believed in was Re (ray) .In afterlife they would do a process to do the mummification ,they would do this to the parahos and wrap them in paper , put spices on top of them and put them in the pyramids.
Ancient Egyptian culture is best known for its development of embalming techniques, particularly in the process of mummification. This practice was undertaken to preserve the bodies of the deceased for the afterlife in their belief system.
The ancient Egyptians built the pyramids as monumental tombs for their pharaohs. The construction process involved thousands of laborers working for many years to quarry, transport, and stack massive stones. The pyramids were designed to help the pharaohs reach the afterlife.
Anubis was the god of death and underworld, his head was a jackals because at the time, jackals would eat the unhidden mummies and the jackal was a good animal to represent death Osiris is the god of the Underworld. The difference between the two of them is that Anubis "supervised" the dying process and escorted the dead to the Underworld. Actual control of that realm was relegated to Osiris.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead, also known as "The Book of Coming Forth By Day, is a compilation of funeral texts dating back to 3000 BC and beyond. Written on papyrus and painted onto objects, these rites were placed in the coffin or tomb of the deceased after the body had been ritually prepared for burial. The primary function of the texts was to provide spells and instructions for the departing soul to journey into the Afterlife.