The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Classic Edition

$22.00 at de Young Museum.

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.” For anyone interested in history, religion, ancient knowledge, or simply the subject…