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The Book of the Dead

E. A. Wallis Budge, Foy Scalf and others

  • 377 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1894
  • 85 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead.

These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls of papyri. This book is the treatise and analysis of The Book of the Dead, (also known as Spells of Coming and Forth by Day), by Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge.

Good for readers who want: history, a classic, philosophy, and a book they can read free online.

  • History
  • Classics
  • Philosophy
  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Egypt, history
  • Spirituality
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Cults

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3 About E. A. Wallis Budge

1857–1934

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 – 23 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips to Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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