Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt by Stephen Quirke, Werner Forman

Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

Stephen Quirke, Werner Forman

192 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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Quirke is an Egyptian antiquities curator at the British Museum. He tells the history of three texts designed to guarantee life beyond death the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead and discusses a pharaonic tradition that spa...

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