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Decorated Tombs

Tombs were often decorated with highlights of people's lives and landscapes of their new home in the Afterworld. Decorated tombs not only honor the deceased with images of their life but also add them in the next world with pictorial representations of fields, bread, and beer. Images in Ancient Egypt meant everything, and if a physical object was not present, a representation, such as a picture of a loaf of bread, could represent the object itself. Agriculture was a common theme in these Ancient Egyptians tombs. Some Tombs also featured animals and the passage to the Underworld to the last judgment. Osiris, himself, was often painted within these tombs as a symbol of their journey into eternity. Not only were paintings invaluable to the decreased, but they also give Modern day Egyptologists a lot of insight into this past culture and way of life.

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