East or west?
The ancient Egyptians generally built their houses on the east bank of the Nile and their tombs and cemeteries on the west. They considered the west to be the land of the dead as this was where the sun god ended his daily voyage across the sky. As the sun set on the horizon each day, the sun god 'died' and entered the underworld. The next morning, as the sun came up in the east, he was reborn into the land of the living.
