Book of Nut

The original name of the book, The Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars, was discovered by Alexandra von Lieven in one of the manuscript fragments and published in 2007.

There are substantial differences among all of these copies, indicating that the textual tradition of the Book of Nut was still very much alive even in the second century AD.

First available for modern research was the material from the tomb of Ramses IV, which included the astronomical painting of Nut and the list of the decans.

Adriaan de Buck's translation of the cryptographic sections of the Book of Nut significantly advanced the studies.

[4] In 1977, Jan Assmann published another relevant text from the tomb of the noblewoman Mutirdis, dating to the 26th Dynasty.

The astronomical data included in the decan list below the body of Nut point to the 12th Dynasty, the time of Sesostris III.