Dr. Yekaterina Barbash
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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Around 700 BC, Egyptian priests decided to standardize books of the dead to a certain extent.
Initially, they belonged to a longstanding tradition that actually extends over a thousand years before the first books of the dead appeared.
But what we modern Egyptologists believe
call Books of the Dead, that corpus of text, first appears just before the New Kingdom, around, I would say, 1600 BC.
And so at that point, the spells in the Book of the Dead are intentionally arranged in groupings that follow an internal logic.
And those groupings seem to be connected to the rituals that were performed for the deceased.
So during mummification, during the burial, perhaps after the burial.
And so as a result, many of the texts appear more than once in slightly different versions.
And so by about 700 BC, the corpus had become quite confusing and convoluted because it, I guess you can say it adhered to a liturgical format.
And there seems to have been a movement among priests around the 25th dynasty.
So that is actually the Kushite dynasty, 700 BC or so.
And
At that point, priest scribes were really pushing towards systematizing knowledge.
So that's when we begin to see systematic compilations of medical information and ritual books.
And of course, they looked into the very popular book of the dead, Corpus.
And
came up with a sequence that arranged all of the spells that addressed the same theme into one batch.
And then the next batch would address a different theme.
So all of the heart spells were together.
And all of the navigating the underworld gate spells and underworld spells
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