Question

ancient egyptians conducted land surveying and built monumental pyramids. what did later civilizations inherit from their innovations? egyptians believed in an afterlife in which people would need their bodies. egyptians believed that only people who were mummies would live forever. egyptians believed that people did not really die. egyptians believed that mummification prevented death.

Answer 1

The correct answer is ‘Egyptians believed in an afterlife in which people would need their bodies’. The Egyptians believed that the body was the vessel for the soul and that, as the soul lived eternally in the afterlife, it would need somewhere to remain. This was why they used mummification as it preserved the bodies.