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UK slash app slash summer 2024. Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt Podcast. This is a special series of episodes, the complete pyramid texts, as found in the monument of King

Unas in the necropolis of Sakara. The pyramid texts are Egypt's oldest surviving corpus of religious literature.

They probably come from prayers, hymns and rituals that had slowly developed and accumulated over generations.

But the first example of carving these texts in stone comes from the walls of Ernest Tum. Today I would like to introduce you to the

texts themselves to read as fully as possible the passages they include.

The pyramid of Unas is located at Sakara,

just south of the famous Step Pyramid.

In 2024, it is open to tourists and if you are going to the

necropolis I highly recommend seeing this monument. But of course

hieroglyphs are meaningless if you can't get a sense what they're actually saying.

So, this series is intended to be a tourist's guide to the monument and its text.

The pyramid texts are long. When fully translated, they run approximately three hours to read. That's a lot of religion, a lot of arcane references and names. So to keep it manageable, we are going to tackle it one hour at a time.

This is part one, beginning in the burial chamber at the heart of Unas Monument. Before we begin I should explain a few motifs that will appear throughout the text.

This will help orient us and make the elaborate religious language easier to understand.

If you're up to speed on the Egyptian religion, feel free to skip ahead a few minutes.

Otherwise, let's explore.

The first thing to keep in mind is the identity of the deceased. In a literal sense, he is is Unas,

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