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2. What animals were mummified? Why?​

User Mike Lyons
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Answer:MANY ANIMALS LIKE CATS, DOGS, FROGS(ect.)

Explanation:Some mummified animals were intended as food offerings to humans in the afterlife. Many others were created to serve as sacred offerings to the gods, who in ancient Egypt often took animal form, including cats, cows, falcons, frog, baboons and vultures, among many others

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Answer:

Dogs, mongooses, monkeys, gazelles, and birds.

Step-by-step explanation:

Before animal mummies were used as religious offerings, animals in Egypt Were sometimes mummified for a more private reason as Loved pets that were to keep the deceased company in the afterlife.

Why? : People dedicated mummified cats at the sanctuary of the cat goddess Bastet as offerings.

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