What Did Ancient Egypt Know About the Soul?
Film8 min2026
We send machines outward. Three and a half thousand years ago, Egypt's kings were buried beneath maps of the dark within.
UNBOUND tests Rev Benton's claim that Egypt knew almost everything about the soul against what the Egyptians wrote: a person made of many parts, the Pyramid Texts and the Book of the Dead, the Amduat's twelve hours of night, and a man who argues with his own soul. Rev Benton's reading: Egypt's sages were engineers of the soul who mapped the inner cosmos.
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What the investigation concludes
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