Sample from a Book of the Dead – depicts Ani with his wife Tutu bowing to the gods, while Anubis weighs his heart against Ma’at‘s feather of truth and Thoth records the event. Ammit the devourer waits nearby.

A detail from the Book of the Dead of Ani, a scribe of the 18 th Dynasty. With his wife Tutu he is shown making offerings to Osiris; the table is heaped with fruit, bread and vegetables. Tutu carries a sistrum in one hand and wears on her head a lotus flower, the symbol of rebirth.

THUTMOSE III Overall view of one of the walls of burial chamber, on which are transcribed the complete texts of the book of amduat - a collection of magic religious texts subdivided into 12 parts corresponding to the twelve hours of the night. Representation of the pharaoh breast-fed by the goddess Isis in the shape of a tree, followed by the pharaoh breast-fed by the pharaoh holding in his hands the sceptre and the ceremonial mace, accompanied by his spouses, Merit-re and Satiod and by his daughters Representation of the Litanies of Re in which the 75 transformation of the sun god in his journey to the afterlife are described, followed by a series of litanies in which the king is assimilated to the sun and other deities.

AMENHOPTEP II A - The walls of the burial chamber are transcribed with the text from the Amduat. B - Detail of the eleventh hour of the book of amduat, in which the earth snake, provided with wings carried the heavenly kingdom the king’s mummy. C - Detail of the seventh hour of the Book of Amduat in which Osiris seated on his throne and surrounded by the mehen-snake attends his enemies’ torture. D - Detail of the fourth hour of the book of Amduat in which is illustrated the descent of sarcophagus into the tomb, escorted by snakes. P 31&32 The Guide to the Valley of the Kings Alberto Siliotti Weidenfeld &Nicolson London 1996