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Ancient
Egypt for Kids
Grave Robbers
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Grave robbing was the most horrible crime in ancient Egypt. When grave robbers broke into a tomb, they often broke the cartouche when they opened the coffin. They nearly always damaged the mummified body in their haste to find treasures buried within the fabric that wrapped it. This put the Ba and the Ka at risk. The ancient Egyptians believed that everyone had a soul. They called the soul by two names - the Ba and the Ka. After you died, the ancient Egyptians believed that your soul had two jobs. The Ba visited the living family, to watch over them. The Ka flew off to enjoy life in the land of the Two Fields, the afterlife. At night, both the Ba and the Ka flew home to their tomb, to rest and prepare for the next heavenly day. But, if something happened to your preserved body, or if your name was not written down somewhere, the Ba and Ka would get lost. They would not be able to come home to their tomb at night, and you would disappear forever, no longer able to dwell happily in the afterlife. Grave robbers not only stole someone's wealth, they stole their chance to live happily ever after in the afterlife. Punishment was swift and terrible for
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