Sortir al dia. El Llibre dels Morts dels antics egipcis

SORTIR AL DIA. El Llibre dels Morts dels antics egipcis presents one of the most influential documents of all those that the ancient Egyptians have left us. It is a religious text of fundamental importance, as it served as a kind of guide and aid for all those who aspired to a full life after earthly death.The ancient Egyptians believed in the possibility of enjoying a new life after death. To achieve this, among other creations, they devised veritable "manuals" with the necessary texts and images. Following the tradition of the Pyramid Texts in the Old Kingdom and the Coffin Texts during the Middle Kingdom, from the New Kingdom until the end of the pharaonic civilisation the Book of the Dead, or Book of Coming Forth by Day, was the most widely used compendium of religious ideas for resolving questions relating to life in the Afterlife.There are a great many copies of the Book of the Dead, usually written on papyrus, which combine texts and images and consist of a variable number of the nearly 200 known formulas. A complex work that has been studied by scholars from different points of view (more and less academic), which we intend to make accessible to our public by highlighting its essential and most decisive aspects.The exhibition SORTIR AL DIA. El Llibre dels Morts dels antics egipcis consists of seventy pieces from the holdings of the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona and documents from the Jordi Clos Llombart Library.