Pieces “Book of The Dead” Found in Australia Museum

Some of the pieces of papyrus, an ancient Egyptian funerary text known as the ‘Book of the Dead’ has been found in the archives of the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia.

“We were very surprised – we have a very important object in our collection,” said museum CEO, Ian Galloway told the Australian press.

Artifacts were found during a visit by the British Museum Egyptologist John Taylor.

Just before the exhibition of the collection of ancient Egyptian collections in Australia, there is a fragile piece of ancient papyrus which have long preserved by a museum curator Queensland.

Ancient Egypt has made funeral manuscript known as the death of the book – filled with the mantra so that they feel supported in the next, and images depicting the deceased make the journey to the afterlife. The books of papyrus scrolls are usually placed in the casket or burial of the deceased. The richer the deceased, the length of his Book of the Dead.

Having carefully examined the collection, he asserted that the memo from the ancient Book of the Dead it is of Amenhotep, an official of ancient Egypt 1420 BC.

Some parts of this manuscript has been discovered in the 19th century, although there are parts missing. Some of them are now held at the British Museum, with other segments in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

“This is not a papyrus from the arbitrary. This is one of the top officials of Egypt ancient Egypt at the height of prosperity,” said Taylor told reporters in Brisbane.

According to Galloway, there is a woman who has contributed pieces to the museum nearly 100 years ago. A number of staff is now trying to trace descendants.

This papyrus pieces that will be scanned and Taylor hope to begin adding digital images together with a portion of the British Museum collection.

“After more than 100 years we reconstruct the manuscript which is really important as a whole,” he said.