Dr. Yekaterina Barbash

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

So Books of the Dead come from a long tradition of funerary or mortuary beliefs.

And they go back to a thousand years to the pyramid texts when the same sort of beliefs were written inside pyramids.

They were an oral tradition before then.

And by the time Books of the Dead were beginning to fall out of fashion, they simply morphed

into another tradition.

So in the late Ptolemaic and Roman period, the so-called books of breathing become more and more popular, and they follow the same beliefs.

And some of them actually integrate some of the Book of the Dead texts, but I suppose it's a question of fashion.

Well, it's very exciting to have the Gilded Book of the Dead out on view.

Not only is this seven meter, 21 foot long papyrus complete, it has a beginning and an end with blank sheets of papyrus on either side.

And all of the texts that should be there are there.

I check, I promise.

But it has gilding on it.

which is incredibly rare.

There are about 10 known gilded papyri surviving from ancient Egypt, and most of them are really tiny fragments.

About three are close to being complete.

So it's a really, really special treat to be able to witness a gilded papyrus in person.

This one was the first papyrus with gilding on it that I have seen in my entire career, over 20 years in Egyptology.

So it's really special.

It's been such a pleasure.

Thank you.

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