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Why did the Egyptians preserve the dead bodies

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They believed that after death, a person's soul would leave their body and return once the person has been buried. They thought that in order for a soul to be reunited with a body, the soul must be able to recognize the body.
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They that the soul will return and be reunited with the body after it was buried
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