What was the Book of the Dead? The Book of the Dead was a book telling of the afterlife which was often buried with dead people in Ancient Egyptian times.

Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Gods in the afterlife.

The Book of the Dead was a kind of Ancient Egyptian book of the afterlife, which included stories and suggestions about what a person might find when they got there.

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