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Book of the Dead

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General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Book of the Dead." Accessed August 31, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/passage/book-of-the-dead.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Book of the Dead. Retrieved August 31, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/passage/book-of-the-dead

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-book-of-the-dead,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Book of the Dead},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/passage/book-of-the-dead},
  note = {Accessed August 31, 2026}
}

A body of ancient Egyptian funerary texts, compiled from spells and illustrations intended to guide the deceased through the afterlife, in use from around the New Kingdom period onward and a central source for ancient Egyptian religious belief about death and judgment. Belongs here: any passage drawn from this body of texts. Does not belong here: passages from earlier Egyptian funerary literature such as the Pyramid Texts or Coffin Texts, tracked under their own entities where present.