The Department of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum preserves one of the most extensive collections outside Egypt of funerary papyri, among which the greatest number bear texts from the repertory known to the ancient Egyptians as the "Formulae for Going Forth by Day", and known to modern scholarship as the "Book of the Dead".
This work presents the papyrus of Nu, an 18th Dynasty official. This early manuscript is shown in its original form with full photographic reproduction and colour photographs of its several fine vignettes. These are accompanied by an introduction on the identitiy of the owner and the reasons for the selection and order of the particular texts included.