The sacrifice of human beings in ancient civilizations Servant sacrifice in ancient Egypt as a model
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https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol49.Iss2.3318Keywords:
ancient Egypt, human sacrifice, Abydos, Saqqara, burialsAbstract
Although some scholars have tried to deny the idea that human sacrifice was practiced in ancient Egypt, archaeological signs indicating two forms of human sacrifice in Egypt before dynasties and early dynasties have been identified and monitored: The first is that human beings are sacrificed in special rituals, in which sacrifice takes place. In person as part of religious rituals, and the second is what is called human sacrifice, in which servants, slaves, and servants of the king or princes and nobles are buried with their master, as these two forms of human sacrifice were proven in the archaeological record of early tombs as well as the organization and engineering of tombs for early royal and pre-dynastic families Which shows evidence of human sacrifice, especially scientific results through the analysis of the bodies that were found in the graves of people who were sacrificed. Through those axes came the research entitled (human sacrifice in ancient civilizations, sacrifice of servants in ancient Egypt as a model), in order to highlight Through him on that phenomenon.
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