1.   For those who believe in an afterlife, graves may contain items the dead might need for their next life.

2.   In their tombs, Egyptians buried models or actual objects they believed the dead would need in the next world.

3.   It is lined with sheets from the Book of the Dead, which contained incantations the dead would need to ensure a successful afterlife.

4.   Attendants rushed to put them back so that the Buddhist belief that the dead need sustenance to make the crossover into the next world would be upheld.