This remarkable collection brings together some of the world’s oldest surviving poetry and religious verse: ancient Egyptian hymns to the gods, litanies and invocations from the temples, selections from the Book of the Dead, and narrative tales — all presented in English translation alongside cuneiform writings from ancient Mesopotamia.
As poetry, the Egyptian hymns — particularly those to the sun god Ra and the great Hymn to Aten — are works of real lyric beauty. The free EPUB is cleanly formatted for reading on any device.