Funeral Practices: Scenario One
As Pharaoh, it is important for you to understand the funeral practices in your kingdom. This is because you want to make sure that you have the best chance of having an enjoyable existence when you enter the afterlife. Hopefully that is not for many years! Nevertheless, as you complete your journey of learning how to be a good Pharaoh, you must know about the funeral practices of your people. After all, not everyone has the money or manpower to build pyramids or large tombs!
Pharaohs were almost always laid to rest in extravagant tombs filled with possessions and if you want your resting place to be finished by the time you die, work has to begin immediately!
Did you know?
Rameses II, Haptshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akenatenn and Tutankhamen were all buried in The Valley of the Kings. Meanwhile Cleopatra was buried in an unknown tomb alongside Mark Antony somewhere in Alexandria.
A royal advisor arrives in your chambers to ask you how you wish to be buried. In the Old and Middle Kingdoms, Pharaoh's were buried in pyramids. Fancy!
Pharaohs were almost always laid to rest in extravagant tombs filled with possessions and if you want your resting place to be finished by the time you die, work has to begin immediately!
Did you know?
Rameses II, Haptshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akenatenn and Tutankhamen were all buried in The Valley of the Kings. Meanwhile Cleopatra was buried in an unknown tomb alongside Mark Antony somewhere in Alexandria.
A royal advisor arrives in your chambers to ask you how you wish to be buried. In the Old and Middle Kingdoms, Pharaoh's were buried in pyramids. Fancy!
However in the New Kingdom, Pharaohs were buried in tombs in a place called The Valley of the Kings. As a Pharaoh of the New Kingdom, it would be expected that you will be buried in The Valley of the Kings. But that isn't as elaborate or impressive as a pyramid in the middle of the desert, now is it? What will you tell your royal advisor?