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Ma'at (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on Ma'at, the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, order and justice, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on Ma'at, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Forty Two Negative Confessions, the weighing of the heart ceremony, the Pyramid Texts of Unas and the Fifth Dynasty title Priest of Ma'at, and Akhenaten's and Ramesses IX's uses of the concept.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maat
Source Typereference
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This source names Ancient Egyptians directly: "Wikipedia's article on Ma'at, the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, order and justice, consulted 2026-08-13."
Ma'at, Deities This source names Maat directly: "Wikipedia's article on Ma'at, the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, order and justice, consulted 2026-08-13."
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This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Doctrines, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 general references.
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