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Maat Revealed, Philosophy of Justice in Ancient Egypt
Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds
can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the
texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure and omnipresent concept that Egyptologists have
translated into the expression "Goddess of Truth and Justice".
Egyptian justice is so different from ours that Egyptologists and historians of religions believe they have not yet fully
understood its meaning. They regret this fact because understanding Maat would be a gateway to a deeper understanding
of the ancient Egyptian world. As for lawyers, they have limited themselves to the Greco-Roman sources on the philosophy
of Justice and the discoveries of Egyptologists in this philosophical field remain thoroughly ignored. Thanks to her
experience in ancient history of law and her ability to understand ancient symbols, the author provides Egyptology
with the missing pieces that were needed to form a coherent image of Maat. Once revealed, Maat sheds a new and
unexpected light on the whole of Egyptian civilization. As a bridge between traditionally separate fields of academic
research, this book is a useful and groundbreaking contribution to Egyptology, the history of religions and the modern
philosophy of law.
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