Dr. Yekaterina Barbash
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And it's not from ancient Egypt.
Actually, the title was coined by Richard Lepsius, who published one of the longest and most complete books of the dead known to him and known to many Egyptologists, the Book of the Dead of U.F.
Ankh, which is currently in Turin.
And he titled his publication Book of the Dead.
The Egyptians themselves sometimes refer to the Book of the Dead as something to the effect of the book or the document of going out daily or going forth daily.
And that is a title that occurs on the outside of some scrolls containing Book of the Dead texts.
It's also the title of some very specific texts within the Book of the Dead Corpus.
And that, of course, has to do with the idea of the solar cycle, because the sun, according to Egyptian beliefs, the sun dies every evening, travels through the underworld, hangs out with Osiris there, joins Osiris and becomes reborn again.
to be born every morning.
And that's ultimately what every ancient Egyptian wants is to be reborn and travel with the sun.
So books of the dead were in fashion, I would say for probably over 1500 years.
So they became popular
about 1500 BC, and they were widely used until the first century BC.
Absolutely massive time period, as many things are in ancient Egypt.
That is a really good question.
Because Books of the Dead aren't really like books as we understand them, so they weren't copied word for word, and almost every document is distinct, they were continuously being developed and added on and
every example, depending on probably the fashion of the time, the choice of the owner, and very likely the preference of the workshop creating the manuscript.
So there are two major distinct movements sort of in the Book of the Dead.
The first part until about 700 BC, so from 1500 to 700 or so.
And then
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