Author
Ancient Egyptian text
These texts have no single author: Egyptian priests and scribes compiled and copied them over centuries. The best known version is the papyrus of the scribe Ani, translated in 1895 by the British Egyptologist Wallis Budge.
Books in Livria
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead
A heart goes on one pan of the scales and a feather on the other, while a monster with a crocodile's jaws waits nearby. This is how the Egyptians pictured the great final test, and for it they prepared a scroll of…