Did You Know In History #Pharaonic_History #Book_Of_The_Dead

#Discover_In_History The Guide to the Afterlife: Book of the Dead The Dead People’s Book, Some of the most striking and enduring pictures from the ancient world can be found in this funerary text. The Book of the Dead is where familiar images like a scale weighing a departed person’s heart against a feather or a deity made of animal parts destroying a soul for all time first appeared. What is the Book of the Dead, how did Egyptians view it historically, and how are Egyptologists making use of it today? The principles portrayed in tomb murals and inscriptions as early as the Third Dynasty of Egypt served as the basis for the Book of the Dead (c. 2670 - 2613 BCE). #Pharaonic_History