Where is the book of the dead now?
What is the Egyptian “Book of the Dead”? It was believed by the ancient Egyptians that the “Book of the Dead” was written by “Thoth”. He was the scribe to the gods and was the one responsible for speaking the words of creation and putting it into effect. It’s name is not a correct description of it. It should be named the “Chapters of the Coming Forth by Day”. It is mainly concerned with the state of the departed soul and its trials and existences in the afterlife. According to one of the world’s experts on the “Book of the Dead”, Sir Wallis Budge, it was not of Egyptian origin but its ideas were brought to Egypt by a different culture and people. Scholars speculate that these people were in existence prior to the first dynasty. There has been much speculation of who these people were but the bottom line is that no one knows. We do know that the changes in Egypt at that time were sudden and highly radical. The building of the Great Pyramid is a good example. It appeared out of nowhere
