The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw, is translated as Book of Coming Forth by Day or Book of Emerging Forth into the Light. The Book of the Dead ( Ancient Egyptian: □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ rw n(y)w prt m hrw(w)) is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE. Vignettes such as these were a common illustration in Egyptian books of the dead. If not, he is eaten by the waiting chimeric devouring creature Ammit composed of the deadly crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus. If his heart equals exactly the weight of the feather, Hunefer is allowed to pass into the afterlife. The ibis-headed Thoth, scribe of the gods, records the result. 1275 BCE), shows the scribe Hunefer's heart being weighed on the scale of Maat against the feather of truth, by the jackal-headed Anubis. This detail scene, from the Papyrus of Hunefer (c.
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