ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that under the Middle Kingdom the Egyptians believed in the recognition of friends and relatives and reunion with them after death. The graves which were made by the Egyptians after they had acquired the art of writing, contain proofs that their makers were slowly ascending the steps of the ladder of civilization and that they possessed the rudiments of a religion. They retained the beliefs of their ancestors of the old stone age and added to them as the result of their own higher development and a cult of ancestors seems to have come into being. The objects found in the late neolithic graves show that the Egyptians had learned the art of working in metals; they were acquainted with the fire drill and they knew how to carve figures of men, women and animals in ivory or bone and they could cut and polish stones.
