Corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts dating to the Old Kingdom in Old Egyptian, carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara. It was first published in 1894. Genre: ancient Egyptian funerary texts and incantation. Its main subject is religion of ancient Egypt.
Before and after
- 1894Publication of The Jungle Book
- from 1894 to 1897Hamidian massacres
- 1 January 1894Birth of Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1894Launch of Billboard
- 1894Publication of Pyramid Texts
- 1894Discovery of argon
- 1894Radio
- 10 February 1894Birth of Harold Macmillan
- 3 April 1894Birth of Nikita Khrushchev
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The era
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