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It is thought that the Egyptians left the heart in the body because they believed it was where the soul sat. It also needed to be weighed on the journey to the afterlife.
it wasn't removed because the Egyptians believed that they would need their heart in the after life

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Egyptians left the hearts in mummies because they believed that they would need it in order to enter the afterlife. They also believed that the heart did all your thinking for you, not the brain, and so then they would take the brain out, and I don't think you want to know how they did that, it's pretty disgusting. According to mythology, one of the Egyptian gods would weigh a feather and the mummy's heart on a scale. If the scale was perfectly balanced, the heart was pure and could move on to the afterlife. That is why Egyptians left the hearts in mummies.

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Egyptians believed that there is a afterlife they left the heart in the people or animals because they believe that is how they control themselves in the afterlife.

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wrong answer!!!

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they removed the heart and dried the body after it was dried they put the heart back into the dried out body to preserve it for 1000's of years.

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The heart was not taken out because they believed it was where the soul sat. Besides that, it also needed to be weighed on the journey to the afterlife

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this is just an answer I made up...don't use 

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