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why did the Egyptians embalm their dead
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why did the Egyptians embalm their dead




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Egyptians believed in afterlife. They also believed when a person died their soul would leave their body. The soul would reunite with their body in the afterlife and therefore, needed to recognize their body in order to do this. 
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So their spirits would be recognizable in the afterlife.
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