

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Free Hybrid Lecture: Monumental Ritual Texts in Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The earliest large-scale records of ancient Egyptian religious literature come from Saqqara, an important royal cemetery from Egypt’s Old Kingdom period. For nearly two centuries, the subterranean chambers beneath some of Saqqara’s pyramids were inscribed with hundreds of ritual texts carved in hieroglyphs. 

In this lecture, Christelle Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Brown University, will discuss the final Old Kingdom pyramid to bear such inscriptions: the tomb of King Qakare Ibi. Smaller than its predecessors, badly damaged, and marked by architectural and textual idiosyncrasies, this monument has often been dismissed as marginal to the main Pyramid Text tradition. Alvarez argues that Qakare Ibi’s pyramid actually provides a rare glimpse into the process of monumentalizing ritual texts, revealing how this tradition was composed, transmitted, and continually reshaped over time.

Advance registration is recommended: 
https://tinyurl.com/RitualTextsPyramids

Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage starting at 5 pm.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/free-hybrid-lecture-monumental-ritual-texts-in-ancient-egyptian-pyramids/200029577101511
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 415

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://tinyurl.com/RitualTextsPyramids?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=cambridge-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- **lat**: 42.37819
- **long**: -71.11624
- **full address**: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (https://allevents.in/org/harvard-museum-of-the-ancient-near-east/21392241)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
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