The Tombs of Ancient Egypt #262035

To understand the tombs of Ancient Egypt, their arrangement and the scenes painted on the walls, we must realize that the Egyptian's idea of the tomb differed entirely from our own. With us the tomb is the resting-place of the mortal body until, in the course of nature, it shall decay and perish; with the Egyptian it was the depository of the body which they by embalmment endeavoured to preserve from destruction, as they fondly hoped, for ever, and they called it the body's eternal home. With us the immortal part of man is, at death, freed absolutely from the mortal body; with the Egyptian the two were in constant relationship. The Egyptians regarded man as composed of different entities, each of which had its separate life and functions.