Egypt

The temples of ancient Egypt include the largest and perhaps most impressive religious monuments the world has ever known. Mansions of the gods, models of Egypt and of the universe, focal points of worship, great treasure houses and islands of order in a cosmic sea of chaosthe temples were all these things and more.

Buried in the Egyptian desert some four thousand years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest poetry.

Worshipped for over three-fifths of recorded history, Egypts gods and goddesses are among the most fascinating of human civilization. The lives of pharaohs and commoners alike were dominated by the need to honor, worship, and pacify the huge pantheon of deities, from the benevolent to the malevolent.

The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, is one of the most important surviving examples of ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead. Such booksactually papyrus scrollswere composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, which were thought to assist the deceased on their journeys into the afterlife.

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Buried in the Egyptian desert some 4,000 years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest poetry.