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The Duat (Ancient Egyptian: dwꜣt, Egyptological pronunciation "do-aht"), also called Amenthes (Ancient Greek: Ἀμένθης, romanized: Aménthēs) or Te (Coptic: Ⲧⲏ, romanized: Tē), is the underworld in ancient Egyptian mythology. It has been represented in hieroglyphs as a star-in-circle: 𓇽.
The story of Setne and Si-Osire's trip to the land of the dead has been compared with similar tales in the Jewish and Christian traditions, suggesting the motif of a rich man and a poor man who experience a reversal of fortunes in the afterlife was a shared one in the Egypt-Judea region. A story in the Palestinian Talmud relates how a rich tax ...
Throughout Egyptian history, hieroglyphs were closely associated with elite and religious display. The egyptologist Richard B. Parkinson considers it fitting that the last known use of hieroglyphs is in connection with the image of a deity. [1] The ancient Egyptians sometimes employed non-standard hieroglyphs to produce an early form of ...
The Judicial Papyrus of Turin (also Turin legal papyrus) is a 12th-century BCE ancient Egyptian record of the trials held against conspirators plotting to assassinate Ramesses III in what is referred to as the "Harem conspiracy". The papyrus contains mostly summaries of the accusations, convictions and punishments meted out. [2]
In the book, Griffiths discusses the different aspects of the ongoing battle for the office of Osiris, including the mutilations, homosexual episode, and the trial. Griffiths argues that the myth is of political and historical origin and that the story of Horus and Seth has to do with tribal struggles before the unification of Egypt. [5]
A section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead showing the "Weighing of the Heart" in the Duat. In Ancient Egypt, it was believed that upon death, one's fate in the afterlife was determined by the weighing of one's heart. One's heart was kept within the body during mummification so that it can travel with the deceased into the afterlife.
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The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenre" is an ancient Egyptian story. It is fragmentarily attested only in a papyrus copy made by a scribe named Pentawer during the reign of pharaoh Merenptah of the 19th Dynasty.