Book of the Dead (illustrated Collection of the British Museum)
by (english) Raymond Faulkner Translated By Wen Aiyi
About This Novel
The Book of the Dead is an ancient and grand collection of poems, with 27 poems in total, including incantations, hymns, lengthy explanations, various ritual mantras, names of gods, etc. They are usually carved or written on the walls of pyramids or tombs, and some are printed on coffins or carved on exquisite sarcophagi. Because the original text was in hieroglyphics and had long been lost, it was only in the early 19th century that the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Coptic (a Greek-based script) were found to be deciphered. The book contains hundreds of rare pictures from the British Museum and mysterious incantations and poems that generally reflect the far-reaching culture of ancient Greece.
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