Book of the Dead

English

Etymology

A calque of the German Todtenbuch (der Ägypter), used by Karl Richard Lepsius in his 1842 publication describing the text.

Proper noun

Book of the Dead

An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, developed from the earlier Coffin Texts.

Translations

ancient Egyptian funerary text

Egyptian:

(rw nw prt m hrw m pl)
Finnish: Kuolleiden kirja

German: Totenbuch n
Italian: Libro dei morti m
Swedish: De dödas bok

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