Mummification
The first ancient Egyptians buried people in small pits in the desert. The hot sand dehydrated bodies and turned them into ''mummies''. To avoid this, later Egyptians created coffins to avoid them being eaten by wild animals. They later realised that bodies decayed by doing this so they brought up a method of wrapping them up of strips of linen. Today this is called mummification.

a dead body in a pit in the desert

This procedure is used today for dead bodies

Geography
The ancient Egyptians thought Egypt as being two lands the 'red' and 'black land'. The black land was where the crops would grow. It was located on the edge of the Nile.This was the only place for farming to be done as black silt was put there after the Nile floodes every year.The red land was a desert!This land protected egypt from both sides from invading armies and neighbouring countries.It aslo had a source of stones and metals.

The Black land with the Nile on the right

The red land , one massive desert