The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The papyrus of Ani

by Ani

The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (1550 BC-50 BC), consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and written by many priest over a period of about 1000 years. The corpus includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects. Some of the spells were drawn from these older works and date...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501079522
• ISBN13: 9781501079528
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"