Afterlife:
Ever since 5000 BC, people were being buried with weapons and food. Most societies had a form of life after death usually with a sinister god and the possibility of paradise.
Why Mummify?
Egyptians mummify because the Egyptian God Osiris had been preserved and resurrected by the Gods, and that reenacting this would lead to the same miracle for the dead mortal.
Credits:
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