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Reddit mentions of The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
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| Height | 14.1 Inches |
| Length | 9.7 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | October 1994 |
| Weight | 2.3920155427 Pounds |
| Width | 0.7 Inches |
If you're interested in acquiring a book on it, let me recommend the one from Chronicle Books, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day. I've owned a few books on it and while others have more scholarly interest, they can also be dry reading. The Chronicle Books edition shows images of the scroll, and then gives you the translation underneath, which I found incredibly visually interesting as a non-Egyptologist.
If you want more scientific detail and analysis, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will recommend a more recent book. I got my start three decades ago with The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum, by E. A. Wallis Budge. Lots of fascinating historical detail, even if his conclusions have probably all been refined or refuted since then.
In general, R.O. Faulker's translations of the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, and the Book of Going forth by Day are much preferable to Budge's ancient and inaccurate versions. Egyptology has come a loooong way in the past 100 years, and there's a lot of inaccurate, biased info in the old stuff that would distort the reader's understanding of just about every aspect of Ancient Egyptian religion. In general, the newer the translation, the more accurate it will be.
OP, other books I can personally recommend include:
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Paperback by Richard H. Wilkinson
Would maybe start with an overview on underworld texts
Amduat and Amduat explained
Pyramid Texts
Book of the Dead (very large pages with full color plates of the Ani papyrus + translations)
Coffin Texts
Book of Gates and Book of Gates explained
Some of these may be available for PDF download elsewhere, if you search by ISBN.