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Who Had to Preserve Cosmic Order in Ancient Egypt? - Maat and the Fragile Order of Ancient Egypt | Sleepy Facts About History
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Three thousand years ago on the banks of the Nile, the difference between survival and catastrophe was measured in cubits of water against stone. The ancient Egyptians called the precarious order that held their world together maat. It was a concept that encompassed truth, justice, balance, and cosmic rightness, and they understood with absolute clarity that it could be lost. This episode explores what maat actually meant to the people who lived with it, examining how it functioned not…
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