so they could make it to the after life safely and they put money and clothes believing it will make it to them in the after life.
The ancient Egyptians did not mummify their gods but the bodies of their dead.
Embalmers mummifies the dead bodies.
They mummified there body to preserve them.
To preserve the bodies for use in the afterlife Also to keep the bodies clean.
The ancient Egyptians used many stages to mummify bodies once the person had died they would cover them in a substance that would dry there skin out.
to preserve respected ones e.g king tuts and so that the bodies could go into the afterlife
Mostly to hide the bodies from thieves. (When they died they would have their riches with them)
The Ancient Egyptians strongly believed in an afterlife, that's why they tried to preserve the bodies as well as they could so that the deceased could survive in the afterlife.
Because they wanted there Pharaohs to be preserved. If you mummify somebody it will make there bodies last longer
Formaldehyde is frequently used.
Egypt has a semi-arid climate, but the way they mummify the corpse keeps it from decaying.
Egyptian myth does not relate how it was done only that Anubis did it with the aid of Isis to revive Osiris; the priests of ancinet Egypt likely already knew a process to mummify bodies of the dead. Thus that process became a part of religion.