Human sacrifice on reality and symbolism in the light of the interpretation of some "techno" scenes in the tombs of the modern state

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Faculty of Arts, Department of Archeology and Civilization, Helwan University

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In his report on Egypt, Procopius of Caesarea, a writer from the fifteenth century A.D., mentioned human sacrifice in Egypt as a reality that was practiced in the Temple of Philae. And oppositions, especially since we still lack conclusive evidence from the Egyptian documents to prove the validity of the practice of human sacrifice in funeral rites. The fact that the burials of servants and relatives that accompanied the deceased in his burial chamber or in side rooms in some tombs of the First Dynasty has been interpreted as evidence of human sacrifice in funeral rites. This term, since its owners have moved to the other world for the purpose of serving and sympathizing with the master, and that the possibility of the decision to move to the other world is a free will - and say - is present, while what is meant by human sacrifice is that sacrifice that enters into the instrument of getting rid of the sacrifice by shedding blood or suffocation in the context of his ritual A funeral procession similar to what was happening towards the sacrifices of bulls, representing the enemies of the gods, and the question arises to what extent human sacrifice was practiced as an understandable funeral rite, and what are the evidences for that practice?

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