Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

Quirke is an Egyptian antiquities curator at the British Museum. He tells the history of three texts designed to guarantee life beyond death the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead and discusses a pharaonic tradition that spanned 3,000 years. Illustrated with color photographs by Forman. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.