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Book_of_the_Dead

Book of the Dead

English

Proper noun

Book of the Dead

  1. The ancient Egyptian funerary text.

Translations

the ancient Egyptian funerary text
  • Finnish: Kuolleiden kirja

Etymology

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

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