A'Aru (The Field of Reeds) was the Egyptian afterlife, an idealized vision of one's life on earth (also known as Sekhet-A'Aru and translated as The Field of Rushes). Death was not the end of life but a transition to another part of one's eternal journey.
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c. 6000 BCE - c. 3150 BCEConcept of the afterlife develops during the Predynastic Period in Egypt.
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2181 BCE - 2040 BCEThe Field of Reeds appears in The Book of the Heavenly Cow during the First Intermediate Period.
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2040 BCE - 1782 BCEThe Field of Reeds if firmly established in Egyptian belief during the Middle Kingdom.
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c. 1570 BCE - c. 1069 BCENew Kingdom texts further develop the concept of The Field of Reeds as the ancient Egyptian afterlife.
