districts

workers

priestesses

angels

irrigation

the primordial, infinite ocean of creation

the constant cycle of death and rebirth at the heart of creation

the belief in the inherent order and harmony of the natural world

the belief in the inherent disorder and chaos of the natural world

the adherence to a strict set of social norms

Ahmose I

Sequenenre Tao

Kamose

Rameses

Akhenaten

Necho II

Pseunnes

Psamtik I

Sneferu

Khufu

Coptic

Old Egyptian

Demotic

Hieroglyphics

Hieratic

in Egyptian government training

to enforce religious norms

to reinforce the divinity of the Pharaoh

by Egyptian soldiers and generals

in religious ceremonies

None of these statements are inaccurate.

Those that survived infancy could expect to live into their thirties.

Women had a lower life-expectancy than men.

Pharaohs and noblemen routinely lived into their eighties.

The infant mortality rate was roughly fifty percent.

None of these statements are inaccurate.

Both texts influenced the later Book of the Dead.

The Coffin Texts were more accessible to common people than the Pyramid Texts.

The Coffin Texts were based on the earlier Pyramid Texts.

Both texts were primarily comprised of funerary spells.

the inclusion of traps and secret passageways, designed to prevent tomb raiders

the use of limestone which preserves their shape and structure to this day

their stepped-design and use of mudbrick

the writing of Pyramid Texts on the walls

All of these are distinguishing characteristics of pyramids built during the Middle Kingdom.

Middle Kingdom

Old Kingdom

New Kingdom

Second Intermediate Period

Third Intermediate Period