Harco WillemsFragments from a Book of Two Ways discovered on ... death customs sometimes included providing the dead with these “coffin texts” so that they could make their way to the underworld.

While we might refer to them as the "Pyramid Texts," "Coffin Texts, or even the "Book of the Dead" today, those are modern attributions. Some of these rites would need to be performed, others not.

The "Book of the Dead" became popular during the New Kingdom, but it was derived from the "Coffin Texts" — so named because they were often written on coffins — and the "Pyramid Texts" that ...

Ancient Egypt is known for a great many things — pyramids, mummies, colorful gods and magic. But one of the least known of ...

While the Book of the Dead may continue to interest researchers—the Egyptian ministry says they expect the scroll to be displayed in the Grand Egyptian Museum—the text wasn’t the only item ...

The earliest publications on the subject took the form of somewhat inaccurate reproductions of papyri on which the text of the “Book of the Dead” was written; and, though much speculation ...

One other coffin had engravings that indicated ... which contained references to the "Book of the Dead," an ancient Egyptian text that helped the dead navigate to the afterlife.

Indeed, the coffin that housed the newfound papyrus ... This appears to be the second papyrus containing texts from the Book of the Dead that has been found at Saqqara in the past year.

The Book of the Dead. The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day. The Egyptian Text according to the Theban recension in hieroglyphic edited from numerous papyri, with a translation, vocabulary ...

The Book of the Dead is a funerary text believed to date back from the ... after which it would be placed in the coffin or burial chamber. This is why they were actually commissioned in advance.

This users’ guide, a precursor to the corpus of Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of the Dead, depicted two zigzagging ... with hundreds of bits of cedar coffin planks spread about ...