Articles related to "Pyramid Texts"

The utterances of the Pyramid Texts guided the soul of the dead pharaoh safely to the seat of Ra and assured the living that death was not the end.

The Seven Wonders of the World refers to a well known list of seven remarkable construction projects from classical antiquity.

Osiris may have been an early Egyptian king whose triumphs inspired myth and legends that eventually portrayed him as a god who defied death and represented eternal life.

Pepy's anonymous queen conspired against him. She failed, and he remarried and left behind many monuments, including a pyramid which gave its perfect name to a city.

The Book of the Dead, Pert em hru, has been translated "coming forth by day". It is a body of religious works, to be used by the dead as a guide through the under-world.

Egypt was the "gift of the Nile," benefiting agriculturally from the flow of the river downward as it deposited silt along its banks, creating a thriving civilization.

Egyptian creation myths parallel many ancient stories that begin with a lifeless void and end with the begetting of male and female and the establishment of order.