Why did the Ancient Egyptians create mummies?

Answer 1

The ancient Egyptians believed in mummies because they had a strong belief in the afterlife. Once they had the dead bodies they would wrap them. Then Egyptians believed that gods would weigh their life against a feather and if had a good life they would make it into the afterlife. The afterlife was said to be another world for dead people. So the Egyptians believed that mummies would live in the afterlife.

Answer 2

To them it was a way to transfer a person from this world into the afterlife. The

Egyptians thought that if the body decayed, the soul would die too, so they prepared the body for afterlife. They developed embalming to protect the body from decay.

Answer 3

Because they had dead people and they wrapped them to look like mummies.