Egyptians vs. Greeks

The Egyptians and the Greek had different view of the Afterlife. The Egyptians cared deeply for their dead. There was a important process of embalming. There were very religious and ceremonial services to put the dead in a tomb. The Egyptian believed that if their version of a priest recited a prayer then ghost would come and take the body. They would keep it safe from corruption and help it into the Afterlife.

The Greeks believed different ideas. They believed that as soon as the person died, the spirit left the body with a gust of wind. Unlike the Egyptians, the Greeks put very few objects in the grave. They also marked the grave so the person would not be forgotten. People of a higher class would be treated "better" after they died. A monument could have been made as a memory of them.
Source

Period, T. (n.d.). Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org. Retrieved June 8, 2011, from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dbag/hd_dbag.htm

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