Every night, the ancient Egyptians believed, the sun sailed through the Duat, the hidden world beneath the earth, and rose again at dawn. This sleep documentary walks through those twelve hours and through the spells ordinary Egyptians carried into the same darkness: the Pyramid Texts of Unas, the Coffin Texts, the oval burial chamber of Thutmose III with the whole night painted on its walls, the weighing of the heart, the shabtis and the Field of Reeds.
Chapters
- 0:00 Settling in
- 2:42 The Gate of the West
- 11:15 Words carved in stone
- 20:11 Words painted on wood
- 29:34 The path through the sand
- 39:30 The hidden cavern of Sokar
- 48:32 The deepest water
- 57:53 The serpent in the sandbank
- 1:07:39 Clothing and breath
- 1:16:15 The Hall of Two Truths
- 1:25:06 The Field of Reeds
- 1:34:44 The people who owned the books
- 1:44:21 Through the serpent to the morning
- 1:52:48 Closing
Visuals in NeoKemet films are AI-assisted archaeological reconstructions, not photographs or footage. Narration is written for the channel and sources are listed in each video's YouTube description.
