The Pyramid Texts were first discovered in 1880 and have been the subject of ongoing study and excavation ever since, with new finds as recently as 2001 (the texts of Ankhesenpepi II). Most of the texts of Unis, Teti, Pepi I, Merenre, and Pepi II were first published by their discoverer, Gaston Maspero. A concordance of these five corpora, prepared by Kurt Sethe, appeared in 1908 and is still considered the standard edition of the Pyramid Texts. At that time, only Unis’s texts were known in their
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