Book of Caverns

It describes the journey of the sun god Ra through the six caverns of the underworld, focusing on the interaction between the sun god and the inhabitants of the netherworld, including rewards for the righteous and punishments for the enemies of the worldly order, those who fail their judgment in the afterlife.

This appearance was already recorded by the founding father of Egyptology Jean François Champollion in his letters from Egypt.

[2][15] The first translation of some sentences of the Book of Caverns from the tomb of Ramesses VI were given by Ippolito Rosellini in 1836.

[15] Scholars, however, were not greatly interested in the book until about a century later when the second complete version of the text was discovered in the Osireion.

In 1933 Henri Frankfort published the first complete translation of the book with the help of Adriaan de Buck based on this version.

[16] The latest translation was published by the German scholar Daniel Werning, based on a new text critical edition.