History of Egypt

“The sky is open.
The Earth is open.
The West is open.
The East is open.

The south half of the sky opens.

The north half of the sky opens.

The doors are wide open.

The deadbolts are unlocked. history channel documentary

And it is here that Ra appears in the horizon.
”
This litany allowed the already purified deceased
to accompany Ra in his solar barge,
as he travelled the firmament in search of the solar god.
It belongs to the most popular of the sacred texts of ancient Egypt: 
the Peri Em Hru, the Book of Coming Forth by Day,
more famously known as the Book of the Dead.
Those texts were written 1.
500 years before Christ, 
at the beginning of what was called the New Empire 
a time when ancient Egypt reaches its maximum splendour.

But, in fact, they originated from older texts.
The Book of The Dead is a recompilation of several funerary writings that the ancient Egyptians 
had already started to carve in tombs and temples 5.
000 years ago.
The first testimonials of Ra, the sun god, 
started to emerge at that time.

But other more diffuse ones were also present.
The debate must have started in trying to discover where Ra was in the hours of darkness.

The ancient Egyptians deducted that a place should exist under the firmament 
where the sun could regenerate itself 
and, thus, be able to re-emerge in a new dawn.
They called it the underworld.

history channel documentary It was home not only to the gods and the deceased worthy of eternal life, 
but also to the forces of evil and darkness.
It’s the eternal struggle between good and evil, 
light and darkness, life and death.
Opposing principles that cannot exist one without the other.

Maintaining the balance between the underworld and the real world 
was the main concern of the ancient Egyptians.
A disruption of that harmony would destroy their existence 
and, subsequently, their greatest ambition: eternity.
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For the ancient Egyptians,
the Nile was the main connection between their lives 
and an infinite supply of provisions. history channel documentary.

The progress and wellbeing they achieved thanks to that fountain of life 
allowed for the creation of one of the most extraordinary civilizations that ever existed.
But its waters hid an underworld of darkness and mystery for its first settlers.