The respected inhabitants of Egypt at that time were rich enough to build magnificent tombs and richly equip them with gold, precious stones, papyrus records, pictorial representations and statues.

Explanation:

Unlike the people of Mesopotamia, the Egyptians believed in the afterlife. All the kings and the mighty priests built their own tombs decorated with images and sacred texts and filled them with valuables that they would use in another world.
They took special care of the body after death, so they developed a process of embalming (mummies).
They believed that when a body dies, it releases the soul of ka, who, though immortal, needs food and drink and must return to the body, and besides without the body, ka is sentenced to eternal wandering. At first embalming could only be afforded by kings, their families and powerful priests, but since the time of the Middle State, the afterlife has been democratized, anyone who could pay for the afterlife texts.

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