...This book uniquely considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the imagined afterlife and its preparation, the book provides a novel treatment...

...This chapter discusses the Egyptian mortuary culture, which explores the social role of the dead, lays the foundation for quotidian mortuary practices, and describes components of the ancient Egyptian self. Mortuary culture in ancient Egypt included practices of real and symbolic offerings...