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Spiritual Traditions

The Book of the Dead (Pert em Heru)

c. 1550 BCE – 30 BCE (New Kingdom to Ptolemaic period)

Egypt (Kemet)

Called by Egyptians the spells for going forth by day, the Book of the Dead gathers about 200 funerary spells, many drawn from the Pyramid and Coffin Texts, for the deceased's continued existence.

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Nesiamun's Book of the Dead, painted papyrus, c. 1080–945 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. License: Public domain (CC0, Met Open Access).

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Sources

  1. The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, "Funerary literature" (Primary source)
  2. Australian Museum, "Funerary texts in ancient Egypt" (Primary source)
  3. World History Encyclopedia, "Thoth" (Reference)

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