The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egyptian: ππ€πππππ€ππππ»π
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the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC. The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated r(κ£)w n(y)w prt m hrw(w), is translated as Book of Coming Forth by Day or Book of Emerging Forth into the Light.[citation needed] "Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead personΒ΄s journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife and written by many priests over a period of about 1,000 years. Karl Richard Lepsius introduced for these texts the German name Todtenbuch (modern spelling Totenbuch), translated to English as Book of the Dead.