The Pyramid Texts

Unas  was a pharaoh, the ninth and last ruler of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom. Unas reigned for 15 to 30 years in the mid-24th century BC (circa 2345–2315 BC),

Unas’s pyramid and its immediate area became the subject of investigation in the 1880’s.  The hieroglyphics fund on the walls of the pharaohs burial chamber corridor, antechamber and passageway was an astonishing ‘find’.

On the walls and surrounding the sarcophagus of Unas was the spiritual roadmap for the pharaoh’s ascension to the afterlife.  And as new pyramids and tombs were discovered, the unifying factor for the burial chambers and tombs that followed this pharaoh, was the roadmap to eternal life.

This tour is an amazing experience, and our guide will take you through the very practical steps that pharaohs and their priests undertook each day to ensure an eternal life for the pharaoh and for peace and prosperity for his subjects.  This was not an after-death experience, because the planning for it had gone on with the pharaoh when he or she was alive.