Egyptian Temple

Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are those concerned with death and the rituals surrounding death: these include pyramids, tombs and graves, but also statues, reliefs and paintings. | Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died they were buried in simple graves with few funerary goods. | But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians' only preoccupation. | We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as almost all the monuments were made for the rich and influential. | Even papyri come mainly from Pyramid temples.