This volume joins together the proceedings of the three workshops held
in Prague on December 15, 2017, December 10, 2018 and June 25-26, 2019,
within the framework of the research project (The rise and development
of the solar cult and architecture in Third Millennium BC Egypt)
launched in 2017 at the Czech Institute of Egyptology - Charles
University, Prague, under the auspices of the Czech Science Foundation -
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. The key aim of the project was to
contribute to the study of the dynamics of development and featuring of
the sun cult in ancient Egypt, as well as of the evolution of some
related topics, such as royal ideology and funerary texts. The
contributions span all periods of ancient Egyptian history and bring
together scholars dealing with diverse geographic areas, from the
capital site of Memphis, with its huge necropolis, to the southernmost
and liminal area of Elephantine. Previously unpublished data are also
presented in the volume, including new research on the Palermo Stone and
the royal annals; results of latest archaeological campaigns in Abusir,
Dahshur and Heliopolis; and new analyses of the Pyramid Texts and their
reappropriation and renegotiation in later phases of Egyptian history.
