Egyptian Ideas of the Afterlife (Paperback)

In this volume, a noted Egyptologist offers a concise, scholarly exposition of Egyptian belief in Osiris, god of the resurrection; other ""gods"" of the Egyptians; the judgment of the dead and the resurrection; and immortality. Also, the meaning of the afterlife for ancient Egyptians and its ramifications for Egyptian society. E.A Wallis Budge was a long time English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.