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Ramses the Great Dies
  The Pharoah's Death   The Reign of Ramses the Great   Preparing the Pharoah for the Afterlife  
           
  Restoring Ramses to Youth
  The Pharoah's Final Resting Place


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Coffin
Embalmers will place the pharaoh's mummified earthly form inside a series of coffins shaped like his body. Workers will then encase the coffins of Pharaoh Ramses the Great in a stone sarcophagus.

The funeral attendants will convey the sarcophagus to Ramses's tomb, which has been carved deep into a wall of rock in the Valley of the Kings, on the western side of the Nile, the land of the dead, where the sun sinks below the horizon at each day's end. It is here that the mummies of his father, Seti I, and several of his sons, are entombed as well.

At the Day of Judgment, the pharaoh will face a council of 42 gods and, by reciting the Negative Confession, will declare himself innocent of any serious sins during his life. Anubis will then place the pharaoh's heart on one side of a scale with the Feather of Truth on the other. If the heart and feather balance, Ramses's statements of innocence will be proven truthful and his soul will be adjudged worthy of eternal life in the realm of Osiris. If the pharaoh has lied, his heart will be too laden with sin to balance. In that event, it will be eaten by Ammit, the crocodile-headed monster, and the pharaoh will be denied continued existence in the afterlife.

   

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