The oldest proof of the feeling of moral responsibility for the ancient Egyptians in the afterlife world

The ancient Egyptian was eager to acquiring good morals and upright behavior in his life, and it was ingrained for the ancient Egyptians that moral values were appreciated in the eyes of the gods, which may materially affect the happiness of the deceased in the afterlife.

A village manager named "Meni" says in inscriptions taken of his tomb from the era of the Fourth Dynasty (2900-2750 BC) and now these inscriptions in the "Glyptothek" museum in Munich, the following: "As for every man who made this for me (that is, contributed to the construction of this tomb), he has never been dissatisfied, whether he was a craftsman or a quarryman, for I had satisfied him".

As well as, one of the provincial governors who lived in the 27th century BC left us with the following statement about his upright life, saying: "I gave bread to all the hungry people in the “Cerastes Mountain”(his village), and I clothed everyone who was naked in it, and I filled its shores with large livestock and its lowlands with small livestock, and I fed all the mountain wolves and the birds of the sky with the meat of the small cattle... and I never wrong anyone in his possessions so that he complain of me because of it to the god of my city, but I spoke and told that which was good, and never there was one person fearing because of person stronger than him, so that he complained because of it to the god, I was a philanthropist for the people of my village including my cattle pens and the settlements of the fowlers... and I never said lie, because I was a human loved by his father, praised by his mother, good behavior with his brother, amiable to his sister".

And we find again and again that those ancient people who have been passed of their time about 4000 or 5000 years confirm to us their innocence of doing evil, like the chief physician of King "Sahure" in the middle of the twenty-eighth century BC says to us the following: "I have never done anything evil towards any human".

Shortly after that era, we find a priest says the same thing as well: "I haven't done any violence towards any human", and a century later of that era, we also find a civilian of little or no rank place, who erected a monument upon the front of his tomb, says to the living, the following:  " You are O livings who on the face of the earth and who passing by this tomb, give me a funerary offering of that you have, because I was one beloved human of the people, where I was never beaten in the presence of any official since my birth, and I did not forcibly seize anybody’s property, and I have been doing what pleases all people."

We see like this in an inscription of another tomb, which says: "I did that which people loved and the gods approved, that they may make my eternal house (meaning his tomb) staying and making my name praising in the mouth of people."

There is no doubt that the writing of such utterances in the tombs of the Age of The Pyramids (that is, five thousand years ago), that wasn't a matter with importance and usefulness little, because it is the oldest proof of the feeling of moral responsibility at the ancient Egyptians in the afterlife world.