Book of the Dead
English
Etymology
A calque of the German Todtenbuch (der Ägypter), used by Karl Richard Lepsius in his 1842 publication describing the text.
Proper noun
Book of the Dead
- An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, developed from the earlier Coffin Texts.
Translations
ancient Egyptian funerary text
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