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Presenting The Egyptian Book of the Dead, an ancient compendium of rituals and invocations crafted to navigate the afterlife's challenges. These sacred texts, interred with the deceased, reveal profound insights into Egyptian beliefs. Translated by renowned Egyptologist E.A Wallis Budge, they encompass spells for guiding souls through perilous realms. This Arcturus Classics edition, featuring modern cover designs, curates timeless literary treasures for any home library.

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The version of Egyptian funerary scrolls used in this edition is that of the famous and well-preserved Papyrus of Ani, written around 1500BC. Ani was the Royal Scribe of Thebes, Overseer of the Granaries of the Lords of Abydos, and Scribe of the Offerings of the Lords of Thebes. Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was a renowned Egyptologist who worked at the British Museum in London and made significant contributions to the Museum's collections of cuneiform tablets and papyri as a result of his many trips to the Near East. He was a prolific author who contributed much to the study of hieroglyphics.

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