AT THE END OF THE OLD KINGDOM, the walls of the inner chambers and
corridors of ancient Egyptian pyramids were inscribed with a series of ritual
and magical spells, known to modern scholarship as the Pyramid Texts.
These inscriptions constitute the oldest body of Egyptian religious writings;
usually literary in form and language, they are also the oldest representatives
of Egyptian literature. In both respects, the Pyramid Texts are primary
sources for the history of ancient Egyptian thought and its relationship to
that of the biblical world.

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