Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

Written between four thousand and twenty-five hundred years ago, the funerary texts today referred to as the "Book of the Dead" are among the earliest religious or philosophical writings in existence. The Book of the Dead was known to the ancient Egyptians as the "Spells of Emerging in Daytime," for according to their religious beliefs, the spirit lives on after death, emerging each morning from the tomb to walk among the living in the world it once new but on a higher plane of existence. I...