The Book of the Dead
Publisher: eBooksLib
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 9781554497775; 9781412159067; 9781554497782
Description: "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.