The Chinchorro and Chachapoya's also mummified their dead. In fact the Chinchorros were the first ever peoples to mummify their dead 7000 years ago before the Ancient Egyptians did.
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The Egyptians believed that Osiris, the god of the dead, was the first to be mummified.
they mummified the dead for the afterlife
A mummy was a person before it died. Although on rare occasions, other creatures were mummified by certain ancient cultures. The typical use of mummification was to preserve a body after the person had died. One culture that used this practice were the ancient Egyptians. Only rich or royal Egyptians such as the Pharaohs were mummified.
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No. Being mummified was very expensive in ancient Egypt. Only a privileged few people were mummified. These people would have been Pharaohs, priests or other really important people.