The Book of the Dead
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge · English
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The Book of the Dead
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge · English
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page 1 The Book of the Dead. page 1 The Title. "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. The title "Book of the Dead" is s
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