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The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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Divinity Atlas. "The Egyptian Book of the Dead." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-egyptian-book-of-the-dead.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-egyptian-book-of-the-dead

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-the-egyptian-book-of-the-dead,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {The Egyptian Book of the Dead},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-egyptian-book-of-the-dead},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

E.A. Wallis Budge's 1895 translation of the Papyrus of Ani, the funerary papyrus of the scribe Ani, acquired by the British Museum in 1888 where Budge served as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. This is a pioneering Egyptological translation rather than a modern academic one: some of Budge's specific readings have been superseded by later scholarship, including Raymond Faulkner's Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, which this atlas also holds as a separate, more current translation. This record merges what were briefly two atlas entries for the same 1895 first edition, catalogued from two different modern hosts, archive.org and the Internet Sacred Text Archive, that each preserved a different name off the book's own title page as publisher; the earlier duplicate record is retired into this one, with its own distinguishing note carried forward: this is not the rewritten 1913 Medici Society text that circulates more widely online. Use it for what Budge's own 1895 translation states; a claim needing current Egyptological consensus on a disputed passage needs a modern academic translation alongside it.

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E. A. Wallis Budge's 1895 English translation of the ancient Egyptian funerary text known as the Papyrus of Ani; a period translation rather than a modern critical edition, and distinct from the differently reworded 1913 Medici Society text that circulates more widely online.

Notes

Translation of the ancient Egyptian funerary texts (the Papyrus of Ani), not the rewritten 1913 Medici Society text that circulates more widely online. This record merges what were briefly two atlas entries for the same 1895 first edition: this one, hosted on archive.org, and a second record, hosted on the Internet Sacred Text Archive, each preserving a different name off the book's own 1895 title page as publisher. That title page lists the work as sold at the British Museum and by five booksellers together, so the two records named the same single edition under two of its own listed sellers rather than two distinct translations; that second record is retired into this one.

Citation

Author

E.A. Wallis Budge (trans.)

Publisher

Sold at the British Museum, and by Longmans and Co., B. Quaritch, Asher and Co., Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., and Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, per the book's own 1895 title page, which lists all five together rather than naming one exclusive publisher.

Budge's original 1895 translation of the Papyrus of Ani, published under the sanction of the Trustees of the British Museum; later reprints exist including the 1967 Dover edition. This is the first publication this citation's "Budge (trans.)" attribution names.

Publication Year

1895

Year of the original Budge translation named alongside its publisher.

URL

https://archive.org/details/TheEgyptianBookOfTheDead

Source Type

primary-text

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Ancient Egyptians

This source names Ancient Egyptians directly: "E.A. Wallis Budge's 1895 translation of the Papyrus of Ani, the funerary papyrus of the scribe Ani, acquired by the British Museum in 1888 where Budge served as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian..."

Source The Egyptian Book of the DeadE.A. Wallis Budge (trans.)

Assyrians

This source names Assyrians directly: "E.A. Wallis Budge's 1895 translation of the Papyrus of Ani, the funerary papyrus of the scribe Ani, acquired by the British Museum in 1888 where Budge served as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian..."

Source The Egyptian Book of the DeadE.A. Wallis Budge (trans.)

Claims Backed By This Source (78 claims)

This source backs 78 claims across the atlas. As facts: 54 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds, 2 connected. Plus 17 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.