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What Is the Egyptian Book of the Dead?

Taking a deeper look at a little-known part of Getty's collections

Ancient Egyptian drawings and hieroglyphics written in ink across a weathered-looking piece of papyrus
Book of the Dead Papyrus of Pasherashakhet, son of Taber (detail), 375–275 BCE, Egyptian. Papyrus and ink, 10 ¼ x 111 in. Getty Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Kraus, 83.AI.46.2

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