Multiple choice

Why did the Egyptians practice mummification?

  1. To follow rituals in the Egyptian Book of the Dead

  2. To preserve a body for the afterlife

  3. To honor the dead through a quick burial

  4. To allow a body to decompose naturally
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Mummification was a religious practice intended to preserve the physical body so the soul could recognize and return to it in the afterlife.

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