MeSoBrEwYpTiAn

The view of death and how it was handled in the Sumerian and Egyptian cultures have varying degrees of similarity and a few stark differences to note.  The pyramids in Egypt are tombs that represent the resting place of the gods.  The human society, to them, was an integrated part of a larger society of the entire universe that was governed by these said gods.  These beliefs are the focal point to the culture.  Many burial chambers were found, suggesting that these people had rituals and ceremonies for their dead ones, possibly, one can infer that they were sending these people to the next part of that big society, maybe even in the families, or groups that they were buried with.  This is tied in with the painting found in Ur titled, "The Royal Standard of Ur", which was a painting of peoples on three different levels, could explain this family type, burial, or in other words, they believed to be joined together in the life hereafter.  This painting could show the importance they placed upon the role of family in society, and the role of the entire culture in the universe (as their beliefs state).  Very similarly, the story The Epic of Gilgamesh displays a similar fashioned hierarchy of the importance of family and being very heartbroken over the death of a close person.  The underlining of the story shows a trickle of how death is an expansion of life, even though the human perspective makes it bleak and somewhat misunderstood.  Simultaneously, the Egyptian culture was displaying similar structures integrated value systems nearly 1,000 miles away.  They surprisingly both display a surety of life after death, but do not regard death as a human experience, rather it is a godly experience and moves them further down the path of destiny.