" The Book of the Dead " is one of the most famous texts to survive from the ancient world.
Copies were often placed in burial cham.
It was a loose collection of spells and prayers used to assist a person in their journey after death through the underworld and into the afterlife.
Its original name in Egyptian is literally translated as the "Book of Coming Forth by Day" or the "Book of Emerging Forth into the Light" and was in use for over two thousand years by ancient Egyptians. " The Book of the Dead " is one of the most famous texts to survive from the ancient world