Ancient CivilizationsZep Tepi and the Turin Royal Canon: Unanswered Mysteries in the Lists of Succession Posted on September 12, 2024 by Administrator The Egyptian Book of Dead is one of the most important ancient documents ever found. Egyptologists discovered religious traditions of ancient Egypt by translating the hieroglyphics inscribed on the wall of Unas’ pyramid – pharaoh of the fifth dynasty – and within some pyramid funerary chambers of the fourth dynasty, unearthed in Saqqara. Those are very complex and enigmatic utterances forming the remarkable religious book of dynastic epoch.