2.2 Religion in Egypt

Why did the Egyptians embalm the bodies of their dead pharaohs?

• to learn how human bodies worked.

• to honor and show respect for the dead.

• to prove that pharaohs were humans, not gods.

• to preserve them while their souls traveled to the afterlife

The Egyptians always believed that only pharaohs could reach the afterlife.

• True

• False

To learn how to obtain life after death, the Egyptians studied the

• Book of Life After Death

• Book of Prayers

• Book of Spells

• Book of the Dead

The ancient Egyptian civilization was the first to publish books describing advances in the field of

• astronomy

• mathematics

• medicine

• irrigation

Egyptian Sun God

• Re

• Hapi

• Osiris

• Thoth

Egyptian River God

• Re

• Hapi

• Isis

• Anubis

The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying