num_pages: 864
description: Complete hieroglyphic renderings of two ancient "books of the underworld" which provided the dead with a guide their souls would need to make the journey from the world of the living to the "abode of the blessed." Ancient texts shed considerable light on the development of material and spiritual elements in Egyptian religion and on numerous primitive gods.
language: English
title: The Egyptian Heaven and Hell
titlecomplete: The Egyptian Heaven and Hell
genres: Egyptology, Egypt, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Dover Publications