A brief introduction to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, with a reading of the longest chapter in the book, Chapter 125. 

Both the introduction to the Book of the Dead and the text of Chapter 125 comes from Miriam Lichtheim: Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 2: The New Kingdom 

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