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Question for the priest: 1. Why couldn’t a priest eat fish, wear wool, or bathe fewer than three times a day: a priest wouldn’t eat fish because the lower class would eat fish he also didn’t wear wool because they were considered unclean. 2. Besides embalming bodies, what else did priests do in Egyptian society? What was the role of a women priest: a role of a woman was to oversee temples that were devoted to music and dancing. 3. What are the key steps Egyptian priests followed to embalm a body?: - All of the internal organs, except the were removed. -The body was packed and covered with matron, a salty drying agent, and was left to dry out. -The body cavity was then stuffed with resin, sawdust, or linen and shaped to restore the form and features of the dead person. -Finally, the body was tightly wrapped in many layers of linen. Then the embalmers out jewelry and amulets between the layers of linen and then thaw the tombs off a Hilton hotel 4. What did Egyptians think happens to people after they die? Why did they bury things with people: they would have an afterlife and they would bury things with them because they think they would need it for the afterlife. Sources: the book and []