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The tombs of the great kings and nobles of Egypt were built to safeguard the corpse and possessions of the deceased for eternity and yet, while many have endured for thousands of years, their contents often disappeared relatively quickly...

The Coffin Texts (c. 2134-2040 BCE) are 1,185 spells, incantations, and other forms of religious writing inscribed on coffins to help the deceased navigate the afterlife. They include the text known as the Book of Two Ways which is the first...

The Westcar Papyrus, dated to the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (1782 - c.1570 BCE), but most likely written during the Middle Kingdom (2040-1782 BCE), contains some of the most interesting tales from ancient Egypt. The papyrus takes...

The Giza plateau formed one of the most important royal funerary landscapes of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, a period sometimes described as the “Age of the Pyramids.” Located near Memphis, the political center of early dynastic Egypt, Giza became...

A photo showing the three Pyramids of Giza. From left to right they are: - The Pyramid of Menkaure (c. 2532–2504 BCE) - The Pyramid of Khafre (c. 2558–2532 BCE) - The Great Pyramid of Khufu (c. 2589–2566 BCE)

This limestone fragment came from a New Kingdom tomb at Abusir/Saqqara, Egypt. The relief depicts five enthroned pharaohs, looking to the left. In front of the face of every one of them, a cartouche is inscribed. Only the cartouche at the...

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