Ancient Egypt Explained: Ma'at, Horus vs Seth, Pyramids & Temples | From Narmer to Cleopatra

You’ll learn how priests read Nile flood gauges at Elephantine, why tax and calendar policy were justified by gods like Khnum, Thoth and Ra, and how temples staged myth as law: Horus spearing Seth-as-hippo at Edfu, Sekhmet pacified by Hathor’s rites, Apis bull burials in the Serapeum, and Opet/Heb-Sed processions that renewed Pharaoh’s power. We unpack the major papyri and stelae that anchor Egyptian religion and science: the Palermo Stone, Famine Stela, Shabaka Stone (Memphite Theology), Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (pyramid geometry), Ebers Papyrus (medicine and spells), Westcar Papyrus (royal wonders), Harris Papyrus (temple economy), Ipuwer (chaos and Ma’at), Turin Judicial Papyrus (tomb robber trials), Metternich Stela (healing magic). Craftsmen, surveyors, and scribes come to life—stonecutters finding “Seth’s blood” red ochre, embalmers packing natron, mirror-bearing priestesses in Dendera’s mammisi, and goldsmiths setting the double crown that united Upper and Lower Egypt.