42-Foot-Long ‘Book of the Dead’ Scroll Found in Egypt

A well-preserved copy of the "Book of the Dead" was just uncovered in Egypt. This copy was written on a papyrus scroll that is over 42 feet long. Along with the book, the Egyptian government says archaeologists have uncovered ornaments, amulets, and decorations that date back to the New Kingdom Period of the Pharaohs. The recently uncovered "Book of the Dead" will be showcased in the Grand Egyptian Museum.

[@birdflipper]

Incredible how well preserved everything appears to be after thousands of years!

[@geminiecricket4798]

Copy

[@SpectrumSwordtails]

Ancient Egypt my friend, they build things to last.

[@JohnV170]

Papyrus.

[@juanito3821]

Probably fake. Passed to look real

[@JohnV170]

@@juanito3821 why fake it? We already have preserved copies of the Egyptian book of the dead. It's just another older one on a larger papyrus scroll.

[@krackerkruncher]

If there's one thing I've learned from 20 years of watching horror movies it's that you better put that thing back where you found it and leave it alone 😂

[@Cyn-er7jr]

Facts!

[@nicoleraheem1195]

😅

[@fajarkurniawan9434]

some mad archeologist will read it they never learn 😅

[@candiromero22]

😂😂😂

[@Humanity2102]

The Coming Forth By Day is the world's first and oldest Holy Books in the world. It was the first time the concepts of life after death, an immaculate conception, virgin birth, Holy Child and brother fratricide were written about. It is a book of knowledge about how to live one's life and live forever if good deeds outweighed bad deeds over a lifetime. These African concepts laid the foundation for religions.

[@saulm4433]

We were warned about this in a movie. The good one, not the crappy reboot.

[@kaylabrownell1268]

The reboot was dog water!

[@hellorandomperson6854]

What movie?

[@Tylerwag214]

The mummy

[@thesexyskywalker3283]

i love that movie

[@BlueStinger475]

Oddly enough the scroll looks to be in super good condition

[@JohnWilkes-mg8di]

How'd they get the lines of text so straight???? Even on notebook paper my lines end up being crooked. Smh

[@craighopkins4496]

Well said mizmode. The Bible Says satan comes as a angel of light in the end times. And he is the father of lies

[@hiandhello4183]

@@JohnWilkes-mg8di skill and maybe tools

[@Atlantis2227]

It wasn't that long ago like they tell us. I read the sacred African text.

[@antoniovazquez7154]

"No Harm Ever Came From Reading A Book"

[@EJ-gi3yf]

The mummy 😁

[@darealone4480]

Locusts flying in from the night sky

[@michaelflores4360]

YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK!!

[@nightstar11801]

Famous last words😂

[@KaponoMonster]

“Death is only the beginning!” - Imhotep

[@devildare4937]

Wow thats an amazing find i hope imhotep doesnt break in the museum and try to steal the book of the dead lol

[@CICBeautyTV]

😂😂 that was a good one

[@Mike__B]

Awesome find. Although I always get a giggle from hearing stories written on paper ~4000 years ago as "mythology", but stories written ~2000 years ago on paper "THAT REALLY HAPPENED!"

[@chessdad182]

Whoa! Don't upset any apple carts! LOL

[@roseg.5567]

Well, one is magic spells, and the other is a historical account. And it's older than 2,000 years.

[@rddv1805]

@@roseg.5567nah that one was just a book of fairytales

[@roseg.5567]

@rddv1805 That is a phrase you've been taught, not a conclusion that you've come to on your own.

[@rddv1805]

@@roseg.5567 definitely came to this conclusion on my own.

[@kattoo99]

Was it found inside the statue of Anubis in Hamunaptra?

[@F5_cena]

Hamunaptra ain't real

[@spazztic1203]

Have none of them seen "The Mummy"??? They need to put that back where they found it right NOW! GAH!! Why can't people just leave things alone???

[@jasminecarter9594]

Have we learned NOTHING from ‘The Mummy’? Y’all better not read aloud from it! But I’m all honesty that’s so freaking cool and it looks dang near new! It preserved perfectly!

[@PeterBornAgain]

Ah yes, 'Necronomicon Ex Mortes' otherwise known as "the book of the dead". The book served as a passageway to the evil worlds beyond and was written long ago, when the seas ran red with blood. This blood was used to ink the book and in the year 1300 A.D the book disappeared without a trace. I am very happy the scroll has been relocated and is being showcased in an Egyptian museum for all to see.

[@andrewlazouskas555]

Groovy

[@geo_metrics6312]

Klaatu. Barada… Ni *clears throat*

[@justsayen2024]

​@@andrewlazouskas555 Damn beat me 😂🤣🤣😅

[@nosferatu3475]

The green book 😂

[@Steve-135]

Thanks professor 👨‍🏫

[@JD-lb8np]

I would put that right back where it was found.

[@Humanity2102]

Africans called their Holy Book "The Coming Forth By Day" not "The Book of the Dead," a European renaming. Coming Forth By Day is the accumulation of knowledge that results in an acute awareness of nature and its secrets which Africans understood to be God's Words.

[@oliviamiller1388]

Haven't these guys seen Brandon Frasier's 1999 The Mummy first Movie you never read from the Book of the Dead in Egypt!!

[@O6i]

Looks brand new. How did they manage to preserve this? It should have dissolved as soon as it touched oxygen.

[@outlawbillionairez9780]

Same questions about Biden.

[@mr.fartman]

​@@outlawbillionairez9780TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY 🎉🎉🎉

[@chessdad182]

@@outlawbillionairez9780 Seems like Biden has control of you.

[@somnuswaltz5586]

Don't worry about it bro 😂

[@nicoleraheem1195]

​@@outlawbillionairez9780😂😂 hahahahahahaha

[@FDR-ww6xz]

The Necronomicon in Ancient Egypt?! That's crazy!

[@tahirabdulziz9360]

some one should translate it, im sure it has some interesting insights and beautiful stories .

[@ProjectOcean259]

Same old sh… probably, as always.

[@rouxgreasus]

There's actually a different scroll called the Edwin Smith Papyrus, and it's one of the earliest surgical texts that also mention the heart and its circulation, the spleen, the liver, the kidneys and etc. Ancient Egyptians were very interesting.

[@SamNiverba]

The Magi would never allow him to be released, for he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind, an unholy flesh-eater with the strength of ages, power over the sands, and the Glory of invincibility.

[@ashleyshelton3748]

Wow that is incredible!

[@crimsonwee4917]

more things to learn in history class, yay!😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@treyhehe]

😭😭

[@WilliamsPinch]

If you’re American, don’t worry. This won’t be in the books.

[@nicoleraheem1195]

😅

[@nicoleraheem1195]

​@@WilliamsPinchHa!

[@Fusion1996]

Read it out loud!!! Might as well add another calamity 😂😂😂

[@derekflegg2670]

I can imagine them having hand cranked scroll readers in their libraries with signs on the wall saying "BE KIND REWIND"

[@kaylabrownell1268]

Did they ever watch The Mummy? Thank God I've got some cats.

[@CassMaxwell13]

Why do they always touch it?!

[@mr.fartman]

HELLO 👋 I JUST FARTED 😂😂😂

[@elijahrose2144]

Worth going to see

[@2024-JOKER]

The Secrets that thing holds !! They obviously know more about death then we do.

[@melvynwindmon1927]

"NOOO! YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK!"

[@GamIngDoge.]

Elders Scrolls just become reality.

[@thunderdrummerdude]

Rick O’Connell’s wife Evelyn read from another book of the dead. I remember how that went! 😬

[@frankvqz3799]

Oh wow wow. Very nice 👍

[@novajtv]

If you read it backwards its Chicago lyrics

[@turtle0053]

PUT IT BACK

[@Severussnapebestfriend]

This is like Wanda opening the darkhold. Literally the warning is in the name. Don't be opening Egyptian curses on all of us

[@mr.fartman]

HELLO 👋 I JUST FARTED 😂😂😂

[@offgridnewworld3663]

@@mr.fartman hello your ignorant for such a remark

[@offgridnewworld3663]

It's probably fake anyway, most of the history they tell us about is fake, nevertheless, it should be left alone, just my thoughts anyway.

[@johnhoney5089]

​@@offgridnewworld3663I think it's real. The Egyptians and Romans were masters of preservation after all. Perhaps today's manufacturers could learn from them. I remember learning of how Roman concrete can last for thousands of years in fine condition. Meanwhile today's version comes with all manner of potholes and deficiencies.

[@offgridnewworld3663]

@@johnhoney5089 perhaps it could be real, nevertheless it should be left alone , that is nothing to be playing with, and your exactly right, the way they built things long ago they were meant to last forever, I believe they make things cheap the way they do today so they don't last forever they don't want things to last forever, that would not bring them any income, I feel like we still live under the Roman Empire they just call theirselves by a different name this day and age

[@SkoobleDoodle]

The British Museum: I’ll take that….

[@rockefeller1787]

why did ancient Egyptians portrait themselves as black if they were not black people at all? or did they not have the right colors to match the Mediterranean skin type back then as they claim????

[@Darksignn]

Because maybe they were originally before they got colonized. Makes the most sense to me.

[@Darksignn]

It's very easy for a group of people to try to change the narrative or try to erase history. Can't destroy what the artwork is representing though. I would argue they wouldn't misrepresent themselves if they could. They definitely had access to other colors.

[@hivemistressherguineapigfa8563]

The Egyptian ground is able to preserve a lot.

[@BabyVisa]

Book of Enoch ❤️

[@gazzgaspay4841]

Artifact dates back to 1069?! Thats a crazy find

[@ShampootheSpider2019]

all the Egyptian artifacts needs to be put back where it is found! It’s the only way to stop Egyptian curse.thank goodness I had one good cat sugar which is tabby cat in my family,that would be bad because disturbing the resting place in Egypt would cause curse to start.the start of plague is near!

[@chris55529]

Hey can you do a video about the "Garden Gnome Massacre", in Florida twenty years ago, when three elderly Floridians were found murdered, and one cop -- *only one* -- discovered that the ceramic "garden gnomes" in their front yard were all in *slightly different positions* than before the murders! This poor guy lost his job because of this -- no one wanted to believe that garden gnomes could come to life and murder their owners -- but he once had a friend who was into black magic, and he knew what a spell could occasionally do. A few days after he was fired, he disappeared forever. And so did the gnomes. So if you could do a video about it, that would be really cool. Thanks!!

[@aspiretobe7320]

Source? I can’t find anything about this story on the internet

[@chris55529]

@@aspiretobe7320 Sorry if I screwed up your day! I was just being a smart-ass.

[@aspiretobe7320]

@@chris55529 lmao no worries

[@emosam07]

SOMEBODY READ IT OUTLOUDDDDD but film it

[@mr.fartman]

MY GIRLFRIEND DUMPED ME 😢

[@crimsonwee4917]

@@mr.fartmanlol

[@kissmissthis]

Lol

[@darcicali7693]

Amazing 😮😮

[@nobody56954]

Woooohoooooo AWESOMENESS!!

[@arravYT]

How much would that cost if the sold it?

[@Deviusroach]

Cant wait for the transcript

[@gopnikmadear9378]

People says that is a ritual book, think is a cringe fan fiction of a emperor son was doing when he was bored

[@hafizasaad9907]

I hope this scroll didn't end up seen in the British museum 🤔

[@chessdad182]

Hah! Stole my comment.

[@Humanity2102]

Ancient Africans were geniuses!

[@expertnoob4769]

Won't this be translated? Is no one going to ask what it says? Am I the only one curious to know about what knowledge it contains?

[@nicoleraheem1195]

Riiiiiiiight

[@nicoleraheem1195]

I'm also curious!

[@ThadDePadua9928]

Quite a nice find. ;-;

[@Synclon]

This is a book when Firaun was Alive!

[@duckweathermcoc8731]

Someone call Brendan Fraser we’re gonna need him to save the world from a mummy invasion

[@Uhsnuh]

Wish modern day egypt wasn't so corrupt

[@cmnr8487]

Egypt has always been corrupt.

[@rainbowstar2775]

Wonderful

[@that_vegan_student9455]

Well well well

[@mr.fartman]

MY GIRLFRIEND DUMPED ME 😢

[@loveanimeforever9115]

Put it Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back! Put It Back!

[@Tensolin01]

Amazing

[@sophie_arkenstone1484]

Looks brand new

[@Baseds_Backup_Account]

It's instructions on how to revive Imhotep.

[@sunnidaydream8265]

put it back!

[@longhornsfreddy8001]

Netflix: Ancient Egyptians were black!

[@VivSees]

Yup, notice how no mention of that very OBVIOUS fact.

[@SammieB504]

​@@VivSeesExactly

[@eenchantress5113]

@@VivSees😂😂

[@Cyn-er7jr]

MAN LEAVE IT THERE! It’s probably why we going through everything we’re going through now!!😫🤦🏼‍♀️🥹

[@misswogdaily2344]

They had big-o African hook/bean heads like mine.😂😂😂

[@dalvinnutter1104]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@whileistaysecluded]

Papyrus containing the spell to preserve its possessor against attacks from he who is in the water

[@unclemario479]

I'm going to pee all over it, and there's nothing you can do about it

[@Idontknowchit]

Sure

[@mr.fartman]

MY GIRLFRIEND DUMPED ME 😢

[@SanFernandoValleyRose]

Yes. Who actually put those Statues on Easter Island? Who really put those slabs of stone in England. Who really wrote the Bible? Who really brought the tablets of the 10 commandments down from Mount Sinai (it was not Charlton Heston). Did Elvis really die or is he hiding somewhere in Michigan? Will the REAL Santa Claus come forward? Lots of who's and why's and how's. We do not always know the answer.

[@UuLoo-if9gb]

So no one is going to talk about how those people our black on it.

[@operationhorror5081]

Then why not perform the ritual then?

[@hyuka9544]

It's time to replace my right hand with a chainsaw. Groovy.

[@lotofbitsabout]

Does anyone know where it was found?

[@jayblueflamez1390]

I always wondered why do they take this stuff from the original location?

[@uvrays7939]

Thanks for using BCE instead of BC

[@somerandomperson6511]

No harm ever came from reading a scroll

[@BenAck912]

This is like a Scooby-Doo clue.

[@Jupitersea667]

PUT IT BACK PUT IT BACK PUT IT BACK PUT IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!! We have enough going on!

[@outdoorsy01]

Nice to NOT hear Hawass' name.

[@derrickj3177]

Mummy curse apocalypse damn, I was hoping for zombies...

[@briceperdue7587]

I call shenanigans on this.

[@amelia6557]

Where’s Ash when you need him?

[@OhThatAlan]

It's written in Demotic and not hieroglyphs, so that means it can't be older than 700 or 800 BCE and could be Roman era.

[@letsallgetintoheaven]

Brendan Frasier about to be all up in that!

[@burakoshimazaki]

Noooo! You must not read from the book!. Lest you wake the creature we have feared for more than 3000 years.

[@mathewmarquis7352]

Put it back right now

[@AllenHanPR]

Getting Imhotep vibes. Mummy Returns?

[@1truthbegettingtold275]

Everyone is so excited. Its the 2020s folks, its getting kind of hairy. Put that thing back where you found it. Right now.

[@mmmmcolbert8787]

all those black ppl on the scrolls.

[@ge2623]

Don't tell me how it ends, I'm going to wait for the movie.

[@Rico34]

👀 It’s crazy how we’re still finding stuff after all these years…. It’s pretty ‘sketch’ though--how good the condition is 🤔

[@helgageraldine513]

The evil dead is real..🙀

[@roughy762004]

Put it back!!!

[@007NowOnline]

*Where's Brendan Fraser when you need him.*

[@RyneMcKinney]

To think all of this is at least 3000 years old... It's so wild to think that our human ancestors looked at society extremely differently than we do now. The Egyptians thought they were the only humans in the world. Everyone was closed off from each other and thought their homes were the whole world. I'm grateful I didn't live during that time, because you'd be killed and mummified on the spot once you get married

[@tourhet]

You won't be killed & mummified if you get married, & the ancient Egyptians did know that other people exist like the Canaanites, the Greeks, the sea people, the Nubians, The Assyrians , etc

[@cmnr8487]

If they killed the women immediately after getting married, where did the next generation come from?

[@miel1074]

I’ll bet you if you asked any of those ancient Egyptians what a woman was, they could tell you immediately!!

[@nicolegreen1024]

KEEP THE BRITISH MUSEUM AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE!!!

[@masbells9793]

Ooof I thought the book was from the evil dead movie.

[@Sook995]

Hmm they want us to believe this perfectly intact book was from back then 🤔

[@presidentpotato222]

Quick lets read it out loud .. and perform the Rituals .. what could possibly Go Wrong

[@brianvail9212]

Setlists to over 600 shows.

[@contorta960]

Came here for Brendan Frasier, was disappointed