vi) Burial Practices Burial practices in Ancient Egypt were complex and preserved until ancient times. This was done because they believed that it was important to ensure the immortality of the dead after their death. Their burial practices consist of preserving the body of the dead through a form called mummification. Members of the wealthy family, who could afford such ceremonies, had the body artificially mummified and buried in stone tombs. These practices involved the process of bringing the body to a tent where an embalmer will wash the body with good-smelling palm wine, removing the internal organs, except the heart, and placing them in canopic jars. The body is then covered in natron to dry out any remaining fluids inside and outside the body. Another washing and stuffing process was performed after 4 days and finally the body was wrapped in linen. At the beginning of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt, Egyptians began burying books and a shabti along with the dead for their manual labor in the afterlife. . After mummification of the dead, they were buried and ceremonies accompanying the burial were then performed. It was obligatory for the family to bring food to the deceased family member and perform, 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. It was the first government ever established in the history of the world. Ancient Egypt was ruled by a Pharaoh, a name given to the ruler of Ancient Egypt regardless of gender, and he ruled Upper and Lower Egypt in both politics and religion. This resulted in Pharaoh and… in the center of the paper… and the writings were in the form of symbols called hieroglyphics. Each hieroglyph represents a word, a sound or even a silent determiner. They can also represent different words or phrases in different contexts. There are more than 2000 symbols that can be read in rows or columns. Hieroglyphs were mainly used in monuments and tombs, however, scribes used a different form of writing, which was faster and simpler than hieroglyphic writing, called cursive and is written and read from right to left in a horizontal manner.Around per year In 500 BC, a new form of writing came to light, demotic, in which the formal way of writing hieroglyphics was written alongside the Greek text on the Rosetta Stone. It was phonetic, semi-alphabetic and a spoken language, which later developed into a religious, cultural and literary language.