This Dover edition, first published in 1967, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1895 by order of the Trustees of the British Museum. The work consists of a systematic translation and commentary on Egyptian funerary-religious texts found in tomb contexts, primarily from the New Kingdom. Central to this is the so-called 'Papyrus of Ani', which contains various chapters of the so-called Book of Coming Forth by Day. These texts contain magical formulas, protective spells and theological descriptions of the afterlife. Budge structures the material as a sequence of spells that guide the soul through various stages of the underworld, including encounters with deities and the famous 'Weighing of the Heart' judgement. In addition, he provides extensive commentary on Egyptian religion, symbolism and rituals, translating and contextualising the texts for a Western academic audience of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1857?1934) was a British Egyptologist and curator at the British Museum. He played a central role in making Egyptian, Assyrian and Mesopotamian texts accessible to a European audience. Budge published numerous translations of hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts and was known for his prolific, though sometimes methodologically criticised, approach to translation and interpretation. His work had a major influence on the early popularisation of Egyptology in the West.