Read the text. “The Egyptians say that their houses are only temporary lodgings, and their graves are their houses”
According to the first one, the dead were buried beneath houses and were provided with food, drink, Namer clothing, weapons and implements.
What determined the Egyptian way of life was their notion about the relationship between the body and the spirit. In fact, they believed there were three distinct but closely related emanations of the spirit. Ba The Ka was the “effective personality” of a man and also the soul, which left the body at death to the heavens. The BA was more like a ghost which could move back and forth from the dead body. The visual art of Ancient Egyptians was dedicated to providing suitable dwellings for these spiritual emanations - statues were perpetual bodies for the Ka to inhabit forever. Relief on the stone depicted the pleasures of this life which ensured their prolongation in the next one. Depicted historical events guaranteed the everlasting power of Egypt.
Task II.
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“The Egyptians say that their houses are only temporary lodgings, and their graves are their houses”, wrote the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus in the first century ВС. Two distinct methods of burial existed customary in prehistoric Egypt.
The second one appeared after Narmer’s conquest of Lower Egypt. It was the idea of building a house for the dead. The mound of sand which had previously covered a grave was replaced by a low rectangular structure of bench-like form - a mastaba - built of mud-brick. With the growth of prosperity, the size of these mastabas and the complexity of the chambers beneath them increased.
