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The Pyramid Texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide the earliest comprehensive view of the way in which the ancient Egyptians understood the structure of the universe, the role of the gods, and the fate of human beings after death. Their importance lies...

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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