- The ancient Egyptians believed that death was only an interruption of life rather then the end of it.
- They were constant reminder to children of family members they were to young to have noun but still watching what they did from the afterlife.
- Egyptians households normally had many children because they show the ones who died as well as those who lived.
- Egyptians families preffered to have boys rather than girls, boys were valued more highly because they could be heads of their own households when they grew up.
- A married cuople who were unable to have children of their own, or whose children all died would try to adopt one.
- A dead person could only enter the afterlife if funeral ceremonies had been performed properly, their surviving relatives to bring offering of food and drinks to their tombs to enable their souls to live on.
- Girls were married off to the sons of other families.
- Fourteen was the usual age of girls when they got married.
- Men should marry by the age of twenty.
- Many cousins married each other, often men married their nieces.
We are the Egyptian family the fact that my mom had many children six brothers and one sister including me and egyptians had many children, also because most of my brothers are boys and the egyptians rather have boys than girls.
