An Uphill Battle. The reign of King Ny-user-Re was not a bed of lotuses. After a rocky start, the young ruler worked to make his household and kingdom prosperous. We see this trend in a flowering of artistic and written culture...
- Date c.2445 BCE
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- Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.
- Logo image: The pyramid of Niuserre, by Neithsabes CC-BY 3.0 via Wikimedia.
Select Bibliography:
- Miroslav Verner, The Pyramids, 2002.
- Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms, 1973 (2006 paperback edition).
- Harold M. Hays, “The Death of the Democratization of the Afterlife” in Old Kingdom, New Perspectives, 2011 (Free Download).
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