CIVILIZATION
EGYPTIAN
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Question
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True or False? Everyone in Egypt had their own Book of the Dead. (Select 2 answers)
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True
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False
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Richer people had them
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Only the poor had them
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -“Book of the Dead” is a modern term to describe a series of ancient Egyptian funerary spells that helped the deceased find their way to the afterlife in order to become united with the god of the dead, Osiris. There are nearly 200 known spells, but they weren’t collected into books in our current sense of the word.
Detailed explanation-2: -The finest extant example of the Egyptian Book of the Dead in antiquity is the Papyrus of Ani. Ani was an Egyptian scribe.
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