Important Egyptian cultural practices include:
mummification and the burial of the dead, veneration of ancestors and spirits, and
veneration of royalty.
Our sense of Egyptian culture (and
any ancient culture) is greatly skewed due to the fact that our main way of accessing
that culture is archaeologically. Archaeology, with its emphasis on cultural artifacts
that stand the test of time, limit our ability to know what everyday life may have been
like for the Egyptians.
We do know that royalty and other
wealthy individuals were buried with most of their earthly belongings, and hieroglyphs
walls and papyri strongly suggest that the ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife
scenario akin to modern-day heaven and hell.
People paid
respect to Pharaohs by commissioning pyramids and other architectural feats for them. It
is likely that ancestors played a big part in Egyptian cultural practices as
well.
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