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 ...

the Coffin Texts and the Book of Coming Forth by Day offer a description of the Egyptian afterlife. We read that at death, the soul of the properly mummified dead was met by Anubis, the god of ...

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

An exhibition at the Getty reveals the Egyptian Book of the Dead, long relegated to a dark ... which lasted from 1550 B.C. to 1069 B.C. “The texts are a means to assuage your mortal anxiety ...