The Egyptian Book of the Dead

«The Egyptian Book of the Dead» – one of the most mysterious and significant works of world culture, which is the foundation of the entire ancient Egyptian civilization.

The book consists of ritual texts, instructions, and spells that accompany the deceased in the afterworld, and serves as the most important source of information about the beliefs of the Egyptians, fully reflecting their ideas about death and the afterlife.

This edition represents the most complete Theban version of the «Book of the Dead», – the Papyrus of Ani, – translated and with comments by British Egyptologist and archaeologist E.A. Wallis Budge, who made the book accessible to a wide range of readers.