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They would shave their eyebrows as a sign of respect and mourning.

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They would mummy the cat then they make a grave for them.

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When a pet cat died, the whole family would shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning. The would then mummify them as they were thought to be messengers of the Cat Goddess Bastet.

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They wrapped up the dead cat to make it a mummy.

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they would either mummify it and put it with their owner when they both died or they would bury it alone after mummification

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They would shave off their eyebrows to symbolize mourning.

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well they mummified the kings and the educated. is it that you want to know about, or what they did to the poor? welll i guess they just forgot about them.

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They shaved there heads

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