Book Of The Dead
Selected excerpts
"The Book of the Dead provided help in entering the Afterworld.
Copies, written on papyrus like this one, were placed in the coffin. They contained instructions and spells to help the deceased during the journey to, and judgment by, the gods.
This scroll was found in 1891 with a large group of royal and priestly mummies from Dynasty 21.
I belongs to a woman named Isty who was a "Chantress of Amun." Her scroll contains only two of the possibly 200 spells that could be used."
Book Of The Dead
Selected excerpts
"The Book of the Dead provided help in entering the Afterworld.
Copies, written on papyrus like this one, were placed in the coffin. They contained instructions and spells to help the deceased during the journey to, and judgment by, the gods.
This scroll was found in 1891 with a large group of royal and priestly mummies from Dynasty 21.
I belongs to a woman named Isty who was a "Chantress of Amun." Her scroll contains only two of the possibly 200 spells that could be used."