The Egyptian Book of the Dead

REVIEW BY ANDREW FULTON This volume is part of a series of books of ancient texts that Amber Books are publishing in hardback using traditional Chinese bookbinding methods that were first developed in the Ming Dynasty. The results are impressive but heavy! The book is presented as written anonymously, but the text is that of the Papyrus of Ani as translated by Sir E A Wallis Budge (with an attribution on the copyright page). In the introduction, Nigel Fletcher-Jones (consultant editor) gives an excellent (if brief) summary of the concept of the ancient Egyptian ‘Coming Forth by Day’. At the end of the text, there is a useful glossary of some of the names used in the papyrus, inclu