History
Ancient Egyptian religion is super old, but it is still full of many mysteries and blank spaces we may never discover.
- The Ancient Egyptian culture lasted almost 30 centuries.
- The Ancient Egyptian religion is as old as 3100 B.C. - 332 B.C.
- No one has been named to have created Ancient Egyptian Religion.
- After Egypt was named a province of the Roman Empire, Christianity spread throughout the land, slowly eroding away at the vanished ancient beliefs.
- Many religions have been thought to have been based off of Ancient Egyptian beliefs. For example, The Christian belief of Hell is thought to be associated with some Ancient Egyptian visualizations of the afterlife.
- In different time periods of Ancient Egypt, they would name a god as a "state god" who was considered the most important god. For example, Atum, or the creator god, was once named the state god of Egypt long ago.
- In order to keep the people's ways, the Egyptians would write on papyri, a type of water plant stem, to pass on their rituals, ways of life, and beliefs.
- The sacred sites of all Ancient Egyptians are their temples, which are located all over Egypt today, usually near the Nile River.
- The Pyramid Texts or hieroglyphics are how scientists have deciphered all of the Ancient Egyptians' ways of religion and their life in general.
- The scientists also found a book of hieroglyphics referred to as "The Book of the Dead". Scientists believe merchants would sell these, then when someone died, they placed this book inside their tomb. It described how to lead a successful afterlife and cautions of the hazardous ways of the underworld.