the books that were used to decorate the tombs of the kings of the modern state, all concerned with the journey of the "sun god" night, and then the new birth, and unite the deceased king with him to ensure the completion of the journey and access to immortality.

The most important of these books are: "What Is Being in the Underworld", "The Book of Gates", "The Text of Caves" ...

The relationship between the names of the books and the development of the tomb building in the modern state is very logical. In this era, the kings of the West Bank used to dig their tombs in the rocks of the Valley of the Kings, which consists mostly of an entrance that opens on a vestibule or ladder leading to a front room To the burial chamber, has been found in the room some columns and side rooms decorated walls with the texts of the books of the underworld, the most important of these books:

* The book "Emi Doat": What is in the underworld is divided into 12 hours are the hours of the night, the oldest copy carved on the walls of the tomb of Thutmose III and his minister
Osramon (family 18). The text begins with the first hour of the night journey of Ra which he has to travel until his birth in the morning after a struggle with the forces of evil.

* The book "Gates": This book appeared after the death of Tutankhamun, the text is not addressed, but the division of the book for the night hours to gates guarded by snakes inspired the scientists of Egypt by this name.

* The book "Caves": It addresses the basic theme of all the books of the underworld is the night sun journey.

* The Book of "An-Nahar": Unlike other texts, this book presents the journey of the sun in the day as it emerges from the thigh of the Lord Knut and continues its journey until it reaches her mouth. The sun god appears in his day image in the shape of a hawk, For this text in the tomb of Rameses VI (family 20).

The book "The Night": The first copy of this book and our link painted on the wall of the burial chamber of my first town in the Osirion in Abidos, and was used until (family 30), and in this book the sun completes its journey that began in the book of the day until reborn, The night is mentioned in the books of the underworld, but it is without the union of Auxerre with Ra.


Text from the book "The Day of the Dead":

This chapter is repeated in chapter 120, which corresponds to chapter 452 of the chapters of the Teton and the text is not accompanied by drawings:

Text :

"Another chapter for entering and exiting again from the kingdom of the other world."

It is said by the priest of the Lord, "Nisa ba Safi": O Ra, I keep the secrets on the gates and the scepter of sovereignty and the pillar of "jib" and balance of "Ra", which weighs the truth (Maat) day after day, I plow the earth. Pyramid.
The Great Harris Papyrus is one of the most important historical sources in the Twentieth Dynasty. In fact, it sheds a great deal of light on the economic and religious issues of this era, as well as the system of administration of temples and historical events.
This paper was written in a very clear line, which made it in this respect distinguished from its consistency in the quality of the font and its good coordination, among what we see in the manuscript in the Hieratic script in the era of Ramses.
Has been bought by the buyer of the "Harris" 79 newspaper, and published an archaeological "Brush" Secretary
"In the British Museum" and who has been referred to the sheets in this way.
This paper was found in 1855. Near the monastery "monastery sea" and reached the hands of one of the merchants of antiquities at the same time, and purchased from him in the same year
"Harris" English original, and the first note on this paper was a year
1858 AD, after three years of sale.
This place where this paper is located is located behind the temple of the city of Habu in the valley leading to the Monastery of the City. It is located twenty-five hundred and twenty steps on the hill in the northeast corner of the wall of the Temple of Medina. At the foot of the southern hill of the valley, Twenty feet from the surface of the earth there is a hole in the rock that was filled with mummies.
The topographic site described in this report indicates that this place is located in the south and south-west between the tombs in the valley where the "monastery of the city" is situated or in one of the houses built in the village of the then-known "village of workers".
These houses, which were inhabited by staff or workers, were later used for wholesale burial. In such houses, they kept the papers owned by the older population, such as documents on the theft of cemeteries and others, including Rameses III, the first Harris paper.
In front of the contents, the paper consists of "Harris" of the introduction, then talk about "good",
And the temples of the god "Amun" and then "Heliopolis or Memphis" and temples of the god "Ra", and temples of the god "Ptah".
And finally the various small temples, and then a summary, and conclude the paper with the historical part of the great events that occurred during the reign of Pharaoh "Rameses III."

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