First I’ll give you an introduction to the book of the dead. The book of the dead is a book that contains tons of magic spells that are meant to help a dead person through Duat (The Underworld) and then into the underworld. The Book of the Dead was part of funeral traditions, it includes the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts. The earlier ones were painted on objects, not papyrus.
Now I’ll take you on a journey through the book’s timeline. We start at 2,670 BCE, when the concepts that the book includes are inscribed in tombs during Egypt’s Third Dynasty. We then jump forward to 1,991 BCE, the book is written on papyrus and is used in many tombs of Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty. Now we go a little later in 1,600 BCE, by now the Book of the Dead’s
Now I’ll take you on a journey through the book’s timeline. We start at 2,670 BCE, when the concepts that the book includes are inscribed in tombs during Egypt’s Third Dynasty. We then jump forward to 1,991 BCE, the book is written on papyrus and is used in many tombs of Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty. Now we go a little later in 1,600 BCE, by now the Book of the Dead’s