About the Author

R O Faulkner was a distinguised Egyptologist and a pupil of A H Gardiner. He began his great work of translating the key religious texts of ancient Egypt with the Pyramid Texts. He went on to translate the Book of the Dead and finally the much more extensive spells of the Coffin Texts. The first edition of the Coffin Texts was published in 1978. These three works, which cover a period of around two thousand years, are the basis for understanding the religious thought of the ancient Egyptians.

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I can only highly recommend this title to everyone dealing with the difficult and sometimes tricky writings of ancient Egypt,'