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Why do you mummify bodies?

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Jadeybadey

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

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.

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