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  2. Book of Caverns - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Caverns is one of the best sources of information about the Egyptian concept of hell. [2] The Book of Caverns originated in the 13th century BC in the Ramesside Period. [3] The earliest known version of this work is on the left hand wall of the Osireion in Abydos. [1] Later it appears in the tomb of Ramesses IV in the Valley of the ...

  3. Turin Papyrus Map - Wikipedia

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    The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map, generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient world.It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 and now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio.

  4. KV9 - Wikipedia

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    On both sides are images of Ramesses VI before Ra-Horakhty and Osiris.The scenes originally depicted Ramesses V but were usurped. On the south wall of the corridor begin the scenes from a complete version of the Book of Gates, while the north wall is decorated with an almost complete exemplar of the Book of Caverns. [4]

  5. Tabula Peutingeriana - Wikipedia

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    Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...

  6. Archeological Map of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Center received the first prize for innovative use of technology, in the Stockholm Challenge in 2004, for its work called The Archeological Map of Egypt. [4] All archaeological sites within Sharqia Governorate areas are accurately defined on small scale maps, providing a detailed and precise database.

  7. Museo Egizio - Wikipedia

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    the Turin Papyrus Map; the Turin Erotic Papyrus; the Judicial Papyrus of Turin; The Egyptian Museum owns three different versions of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, including the most ancient copy known. An integral illustrated version and the personal copy of the architect Kha, found by Schiaparelli in 1906, are normally shown to the public.

  8. File:Ancient Egypt map-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Map of Ancient Egypt, showing the Nile up to the fifth cataract, and major cities and sites of the Dynastic period (c. 3150 BC to 30 BC). Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference cities. Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference cities.

  9. Cavern deities of the underworld - Wikipedia

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    The first seven caverns contained groups of three mummiform and three anthropomorphic deities, two male and one female in each triad. From the 8th to the 20th cavern, one would find divinities in variable numbers: in the 8th, for example, there were seven groups along with individual divinities, and at least twenty of them in the 9th. [ 4 ]