Comparison Of Pyramid Texts And The Book Of The Dead

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No man on Earth has gone his whole life without committing a single sin, so the Egyptians created Pyramid Texts and The Book of the Dead to prepare for this common occurrence. Pyramid Texts were spells, hymns of praise, and lists of offerings that were believed to “guarantee the individuals transcendence of physical morality” by allowing them to “escape from the clutches of bodily death,” (Roberson). Pyramid Texts where available to “any Egyptian with financial means,” (Roberson) but as the times changed into the Middle Kingdom “the texts took the form of Coffin Texts” and they “appear on many coffins of wealth, private individuals” of that time (The Department Of Ancient Egypt And Sudan At The British Museum). The Book of the Dead is similar

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