The Egyptian Heaven and Hell

About this book

The sun sinks beneath the western horizon and enters a world of sealed gates, divine guardians and terrible enemies. Each hour of darkness brings another passage through the Egyptian afterlife before dawn can return.

E. A. Wallis Budge presents and explains funerary texts including the Amduat and the Book of Gates, with figures and scenes drawn from ancient tombs. The gods, serpents and chambers form a detailed geography of the unseen world. Budge's translations belong to an earlier stage of Egyptology, yet the illustrations preserve the remarkable imaginative structure of these royal underworld books.