vi) Burial PracticesBurial practices in ancient Egypt were complex and preserved them throughout ancient times. This was done because they believed it was important to ensure the immortality of the dead after their death. Their funerary practices consist of preserving the body of the dead through a form called mummification. Members of wealthy families, who could afford such ceremonies, had the body artificially mummified and buried it in stone tombs. These practices involved the process of taking the body to a tent where an embalmer would wash the body with fragrant palm wine, removing the internal organs, except the heart, and placing them in canopic jars. The body is then covered with natron to dry out any remaining fluids inside and outside the body. Another process of washing and stuffing was carried out after 4 days and finally the body was wrapped in linen. At the start of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt, Egyptians began to bury books and shabti with the dead for their manual labor in the afterlife. . After the dead were mummified, they were buried and ceremonies then accompanied the burial. It was obligatory for the family to bring food to the deceased family member and to perform, by reciting, a prayer on behalf of the deceased. The Ancient Egyptian Regime The first government or regime to have absolute control over an entire nation was developed by the ancient Egyptian civilization. . This is the very first government established in world history. Ancient Egypt was ruled by a pharaoh, a name given to the ruler of ancient Egypt, regardless of gender, and ruled Upper and Lower Egypt, both politically and religiously. This led to the Pharaoh e...... middle of paper...... and the writings were in the form of symbols called hieroglyphics. Each hieroglyph represents a word or a sound or even a silent determiner. They can also represent different words or phrases in different contexts. There are over 2000 symbols that can be read in rows or columns. Hieroglyphs were primarily used in monuments and tombs, however, scribes used a different, quicker and easier form of writing than writing in hieroglyphs, called cursive script and was written and read from right to left horizontally. Throughout the year Around 500 BC, a new form of writing, demotic, in which the formal way of writing hieroglyphs was written alongside the Greek text on the Rosetta Stone, appeared. It was a phonetic, semi-alphabetic, spoken language that later developed into a language of religion, culture, and literature...