Books of Breathing

The Books of Breathing (Arabic: كتاب التنفس Kitāb al-Tanafus) are several ancient Egyptian funerary texts, intended to enable deceased people to continue existing in the afterlife.

[1] Other copies come from the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt, as late as the 2nd century AD.

[3] Their titles use the word "breathing" as a metaphorical term for all of the aspects of life that the deceased hoped to experience again in the afterlife.

The texts exhort various Egyptian gods to accept the deceased into their company.

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Papyrus with hieratic , part of Egypt's Books of Breathing, probably from Thebes . Dated to 323–30 BC ( Ptolemaic Kingdom ). Currently on display at Germany's Neues Museum .