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Why did the egyptians bury their dead on the west side of the nile?

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Answer: The Egyptians believed that the deceased entered the afterlife from the west (imitating the behavior of the setting sun) and therefore needed to be buried on the west of the Nile in order to gain entrance into heaven.

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