Dr. Yekaterina Barbash
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first heard Jul 2026
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And I swear I fell to my knees and crawled around it for hours.
It turned out that the Book of the Dead was complete.
There was a beginning and an end.
And that was the first time in probably over 2000 years that I was able to read the name of the owner and his mother.
Well, let me rephrase that.
I haven't been around for 2000 years.
It's the first time in 2,000 years that anyone read the name of the owner.
It's written in the ancient Egyptian language.
the Middle Egyptian specifically, but the script they used for this Book of the Dead, for the Book of the Dead of Bonkmerwer, is hieratic, which is basically a cursive form of hieroglyphs, and the hieratic script appeared at the same time as the hieroglyphic script.
It's sort of like if you think of capital letters versus handwritten letters.
There is no writing on the other side.
There may have been at some point, but earlier today I spoke about the two layers of papyrus.
So with the manuscript of Ankh-Mir where only the top layer remains, it's that thin.
And to be honest, I'm not sure if there ever was another layer on the back.
and it had fallen off.
Perhaps Henry Abbott helped it.
Perhaps he didn't, but we don't know what was on the back.
I would not expect anything to be written on the back for this time period.
Fair enough.
So what we know is that he lived around the second century BC during Ptolemaic times.
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