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After you die you "ba" (spirit) will depart from your body and will have to go through many challenges for your ba to reclaim your body

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Ankh
Symbol of eternal life. The gods are often seen holding an ankh to someone's lips this is considered to be an offering of "The Breath of Life". The breath you will need in the afterlife.

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The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects, not papyrus.

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the book of the dead wasnt something they needed to have. it was to give you a higher chance of making it into the afterlife

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Akhet
This symbol represents the horizon from which the sun emerged and disappeared. The horizon thus embodied the idea of both sunrise and sunset. It is similar to the two peaks of the Djew or mountain symbol with solar disk in the center. Both the beginning and the end of each day was guarded by Aker, a double lion god. In the New Kingdom, Harmakhet ("Horus in the Horizon") became the god of the rising and setting sun. He was pictured as a falcon, or as a sphinx with the body of a lion. The Great Sphinx of Giza is an example of "Horus in the Horizon".

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The Cost of being mummified in Ancient Egypt

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The Cost of being mummified in Ancient Egypt

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In Ancient Egypt, only wealthy Kings and Queens could afford to be mummified because of how dare the cost was. In ancient Egypt   (c. 3100-2686 B.C.) it cost about

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Amenta
This symbol represents the Underworld or Land of the Dead. Originally it meant the horizon of the sun set. Later, it became the symbol of the west bank of the Nile, where the sun set and also where the Egyptians traditionally buried their dead.

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In Egyptian mythology, Apis or Hapis (alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh[1]) was a sacred bull worshipped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of Hathor, a primary deity in the pantheon of Ancient Egypt

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It is said that most tombs will be cursed by the book of the dead as the curse is only there to prevent others from opening it. This may be because the tomb may have had a bad person who did very bad things mummified and would be locked away. If opened the tomb or coffin the person will be cursed by whatever spell was put on it.

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In Egyptian mythology, Apis or Hapis (alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh) was a sacred bull worshipped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of Hathor, a primary deity in the pantheon of Ancient Egypt. Initially, he was assigned a significant role in her worship, being sacrificed and reborn.

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Ba
The Ba is what we might call someones personality. It would leave the body at the time of death. During the days the Ba would make itself useful, at night it would return to the tomb. At this time, it would look for the person to which it belonged. This would be the mummy, however, often the egyptians would supply the Ba with a statue in the likeness of the deceased in case the mummy was lost or damaged.

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Egyptians stopped making mummies between the fourth and seventh century AD, when many Egyptians became Christians. But it's estimated that, over a 3000-year period, more than 70 million mummies were made in Egypt.

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After you died, Egyptians believed, your ba (spirit) would depart your body – but only temporarily. The ba would need to return to your remains periodically, perhaps every night, and for this reunion to be successful the body had to be intact

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Pharaohs were the only royal ones who were important enough to possess the power to be mummified. Throughout the years it started to change and many others had the power to be mummified by one who could read the book of the dead.

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Mummification was mainly done to wealthy people as poorer people could not afford the process.

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Ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife when someone died.  Mummification helped someone reach the afterlife as they thought that, in order to have an afterlife, the dead person would have to repossess his or her body. Egyptians believed that the only way to do this was if the body was recognisable.

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In order to reach the paradise that was the afterlife. The Field of Rushes was the afterlife for the ancient Egyptians the paradise they had been striving to reach throughout their lifetime and the final destination of their journey through the underworld.

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It was after 1550 BC that a corpus of spells were written and illustrated on sheets of papyrus. They started to replace the sheets of papyrus with coffin texts in Egyptian tombs.

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There is no standard book of the dead. Every manuscript contained different texts. No known manuscripts contained all of the spells. They could cater the Book of the Dead to suit them and the sins they committed in their life

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The Book of the Dead was widely used, and indeed thousands of examples have survived to the present day.

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At many sacred sites, the Egyptians worshipped individual animals which they believed to be manifestations of particular deities. These animals were selected based on specific sacred markings which were believed to indicate their fitness for the role. Some of these cult animals retained their positions for the rest of their lives, as with the Apis bull worshipped in Memphis as a manifestation of Ptah.

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The hearts contains all the deceased actions the person has done. The persons heart is weight against the feather of the goddess Ma at. If the heart is heavier then the feather of Ma at then the owner of the heart may not pass the gates to paradise.

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For the Egyptions life continued after death. To them death was only a temporary interruption or pause to life.

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A coronation was an extremely important ritual in early and ancient Egyptian history, concerning the change of power and rulership between two succeeding
pharaohs.

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Journey in the Ancient Egyptian's Underworld

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Journey in the Ancient Egyptian's Underworld

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The deceased's spirit is will have to face the strange creatures, gatekeepers and the gods to reach Osiris and the Hall of Final Judgement.

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It is said that even though you had a bad life the book of the dead would help you get away with the so called "bad karma" that many would have been cursed upon of. The book of the dead was full of tricks and spells to get you to the afterlife.

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many religions believed in god(s)

eg Rome, Egypt, Maori civilisations believed that the  had gods of the sky, sun, harvest, etc.

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Egyptians believe in Polytheism, the belief in many gods. Polytheism characterizes virtually all religions other than Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which share a common tradition of monotheism, the belief in one God.

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The book of the dead was made up of many spells and chants that helped the process of life after death.

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Life on earth could be short so the rituals came in handy and was part of their culture. They lived with the belief that life on earth would influence life after death.

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Spell six in the book of he dead suggested your shabti would take your place in your afterlife while fulfilling tasks like fertilising fields, flooding banks or conveying sand from east to west. So you can be free to enjoy 'eternal paradise'.