Chronological Order of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts: Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead

All of these funerary texts contain spells to protect the deceased in the afterlife.

I made a more detailed video about these three funerary texts, you can watch it on my blog here: https://www.ancientmagic.academy/video-pyramidtexts-coffintexts-bookofthedead/

Written on the inner walls of the pyramids of pharaohs of the 5th, 6th and 8th dynasties.
They represent the largest coherent collection of ancient Egyptian texts.
Ensuring the deceased king can take his place amongst the gods and reunite with hisdivine father Ra.
The afterlife is located predominantly in the sky.
Pyramid texts remain an independent collection of texts and were still used to inscribe coffins (but no longer pyramids) during the Middle Kingdom.

Mostly written on the insides of coffins of high-ranking people and wealthy privateindividuals and not restricted to pharaohs or royal family members.
Many of the spells are derived from the earlier Pyramid Texts with new content relating to more everyday problems and desires.
The Coffin Texts include illustrations.
They do not contain a consistent description of how the afterlife and life there wereconceived and how to get there.
In addition to a celestial afterlife, a hope for an afterlife linked to the fate of thegod Osiris further develops.
Coffin texts remain in use as late as the 27th Dynastie (c. 690-520 BC).

Egyptian title: rA.w n.(ï)w pr.t m hrw – Spells belonging to (the) coming forth by day.
Many of the spells are derived from the earlier Pyramid and Coffin Texts.
The spells are not restricted to pharaohs or royal family members.
Since the New Kingdom the main medium is papyrus but they were also written onmummy bandages.
The scrolls were placed inside the coffin or in the burial chamberof the deceased.
The famous spell 125 for the “Weighing of the Heart” is first attested during the reignof Hatshepsut and Thutmose III (18th Dynasty, 15th century BC).