The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) - Complete Audiobook HQ

Genre:

Audiobook

Country:

USA

Year:

2018
Duration:

02 h 28 min

Author:

Ani

Synopsis:

The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript in the form of a scroll with cursive hieroglyphs and color illustrations that was created c. 1250 BCE, during the nineteenth dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.  Egyptians compiled an individualized book for certain people upon their death, called the Book of Going Forth by Day, more commonly known as the Book of the Dead, typically containing declarations and spells to help the deceased in their afterlife.  The Papyrus of Ani is the manuscript compiled for the Theban scribe Ani.

The scroll was stolen from an Egyptian government storeroom in 1888 by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, as described in his two-volume By Nile and Tigris,for the collection in the British Museum where it remains today.  Before shipping the manuscript to England, Budge cut the seventy-eight foot scroll into thirty-seven sheets of nearly equal size, damaging the scroll's integrity at a time when technology had not yet allowed the pieces to be put back together.