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Egyptian Book of the Dead at Brooklyn Museum

In April we installed a thirty foot long archival case in the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian Gallery to house an early version of the  Book of the Dead.  The Book of the Dead was intended to assist the deceased in the afterlife and comprised a collection of hymns, spells and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles […]

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