Egyptian Mummification

The Egyptian mummification was a very important religious practice in ancient Egypt. It was considered the most important stage of life. The Egyptians based their lives on death, trying to find about the afterlife and what's beyond death. My objective in this project is to describe how in the twentieth century all this mysteries were revealed by the interests and advances in archeology. I chose this topic because I thought that the Egyptians were a very important civilization through history and many ideas and advances in the further civilizations were taken from the Egyptians. They had many superstitions and religious beliefs as any other culture, and they were very attached to them.
Egyptians believed that the body was the link to a spiritual existence in the afterlife. The body was mummified so the spirit could get the food and drink needed in the afterlife. In case the body was destroyed or damaged, magical spells were placed on a statue of the deceased so the spirit could pass to the statue and continue to have their needs met.
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