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Early one morning in the winter of 1879, an observant and intelligent Egyptian workman standing near the pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, saw a desert fox silhouetted against the light of the rising sun. This wary animal was behaving in a rather bizarre and uncharacteristic manner. It moved, stopped and then looked directly at the workman as if inviting him to follow, then moved again before disappearing into a crevice in the north face of the pyramid. Intrigued by this, and scenting possible profit, for pyramids and tombs were renowned as repositories of treasure, the excited man followed the fox into the ancient structure and, after a difficult crawl through a tunnel-like passage, found himself in a large chamber within the pyramid. Lighting a flaming torch, he found that the walls of the chamber were covered with turquoise and gold hieroglyphic inscriptions. Later, after further investigation by the archaeologists, similar inscriptions were found in other nearby pyramids. These inscriptions are today known collectively as the Pyramid Texts. They consist of over 4,000 lines of hymns and sacred formulae. Professor Gaston Maspero, the director of the Egyptian Antiquities Service was the first scholar of repute to view them in situ.

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