Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt

Abstract

Contrary to the popular and current impression, the most important body of sacred literature in Egypt is not the Book of the Dead, but a much older literature which we now call the "Pyramid Texts."These texts, pre- served in the Fifth and Sixth Dynasty Pyramids at Sak- kara, form the oldest body of literature surviving from the ancient world and disclose to us the earliest chapter in the intellectual history of man as preserved to modern times.