About this history book
The Book of the dead: the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum: the Egyptian text with interlinear transliteration and translation, a running translation, introduction, etc. by E. A. Wallis Budge, E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer, Foy Scalf, Paul Mirecki is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
<i>The Egyptian Book of the Dead</i> is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all history. Embodying a ritual to be performed for the dead, with detailed instructions for the behaviors of the disembodied spirit in the Land of the Gods, it served as the most important repository of religious authority for some three thousand years. Chapters were carved on the pyramids of the ancient 5th Dynasty, texts were written in papyrus, and selections were painted on mummy cases well into the
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- Author
- E. A. Wallis Budge, E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer, Foy Scalf, Paul Mirecki
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1960
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780486218663
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Philosophy, Fiction