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The Book of the Dead

Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge

出版	Floating Press, 1920
ISBN	15870641039781587064104
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NGaXnQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This is Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge's thesis on and interpretation of the 'The Book of the Dead', which is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text known as 'The Book of Coming '[or 'Going']' Forth By Day'. The book of the dead was a description of the ancient Egyptian conception of the afterlife and a collection of hymns, spells, and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles in the afterlife. The book of the dead was most commonly written on a papyrus scroll and placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased. The name "Book of the Dead" was the inv.