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The 31 pages that link to Book of the Dead, each with the reason it gives.

• PapyrusRelated: Copies were often written on papyrus and placed in burials.

• Woodblock printingRelated: Printed editions of the Book of the Dead have used woodcuts to interpret its imagery.

• OsirisRelated: Its spells guide the deceased through the realm ruled by Osiris.

• Valley of the KingsRelated: Versions of its spells appear among the texts and images in some tombs.

• Ancient Egyptian funerary practicesRelated: Its spells guided the deceased through dangers and judgments after burial.

• MummificationRelated: Its spells complemented bodily preservation by addressing the deceased’s spiritual passage.

• RaRelated: Its spells describe the sun’s cycles and the deceased’s hopes of joining solar renewal.

• Coffin TextsRelated: It inherited and reshaped many spells that had circulated in the Coffin Texts.

• MummyRelated: Its spells illuminate the religious aims that shaped Egyptian mummification.

• SenetRelated: New Kingdom spells connect senet imagery with a deceased person's passage through the afterlife.

• HieraticRelated: Many copies were written in hieratic on papyrus.

• Demotic EgyptianRelated: Demotic versions adapted older funerary traditions for later periods.

• NefertariRelated: Spell scenes and texts in QV66 connect Nefertari’s burial to Egyptian afterlife beliefs.

• ThothRelated: Its judgment scenes often show Thoth recording the fate of the deceased.

• AnubisRelated: Its spells and illustrations place Anubis within the deceased’s passage through the afterlife.

• AnkhRelated: Its illustrated spells include scenes where gods grant life with the ankh.

• Twenty-first Dynasty of EgyptRelated: Copies and funerary texts from this era show the continuing importance of afterlife traditions.

• NephthysRelated: Its vignettes and spells place Nephthys among the protectors of the deceased.

• Carlos Ruiz ZafónRelated: The Cemetery series reimagines the idea of a repository where books face a form of life beyond neglect.