Dr. Yekaterina Barbash

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The Ancients · Egypt's Book of the Dead · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Thank you.

It's wonderful to be on the show.

I'm really excited about it.

Well, the Book of the Dead was actually not a book by our modern standards.

Rather, the Book of the Dead is a collection of different texts that are sometimes called spells.

There are about 200 distinct texts, and they're as a whole intended to help

the spirit of a person transition into the afterlife and then continue successfully existing there.

Now, the texts or spells themselves, they address a range of different topics like protecting the body, providing nourishment, navigating the underworld, which can get

quite dangerous and difficult sometimes, joining Osiris, the god of the dead, but also repelling dangerous creatures that appear both in this life and in the underworld.

I suppose you could say that.

It is in many ways a guide to the afterlife.

It's a guide for the spirit to navigate the afterlife, but it's also a guide for the priests and ritualists that

prepare the body.

And so, for instance, many of the texts included in the Book of the Dead were likely recited during mummification.

So they were recited by the living.

But they also include, the Books of the Dead also include texts that we know were used by the living.

For

that are meant to protect from scorpions or snake bites.

Those were deemed necessary for the afterlife as well.

We do know where we get the title from.

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