Guide Note:
The Egyptian Book of the Dead was a guide book of spells, passwords and clues used by Ancient Egyptians for safe passage into the afterlife.
Fast Facts:
- Also know as Coffin Texts, Pyramid Texts and The Book of Coming Forth by Day
- Select texts were published by German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius in 1842
- Versions date back to 16th Century BC
- There are over 200 chapters, although no papyrus contained them all
- Each version was individualized and no 2 were ever the same
- Wealth and statuswas a determining factor in the quality of The Book of the Dead that you received
- The Papyrus of Ani, was 78 ft long and seperated into 37 chapter sheets
