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There was a ceremony. They'd take out the dead pharoah's heart. If it weighed more than an ostrich feather, they lived a good life, and will go to the afterlife. If not, then they lived a bad life, and will not go to the afterlife. It was they're belief, like our religions and beliefs today.

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