The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Classic Edition

A translation and transliteration of the most important and authoritative funerary text from Ancient Egypt

At the turn of the twentieth century, a representative of the British Museum traveled to Egypt and heard stories of an incredible scroll hidden in an ancient tomb. When Dr. Wallis Budge finally found the scroll, he described it as “the largest roll of papyrus [he] had ever seen…and in a perfect state of preservation.”

Dr. Wallis Budge learned that this scroll was The Papyrus of Ani, one...