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2023-06-13 19:45:00
The Nile brought life, wealth and comfort to the Egyptians until death.
“O Mighty One who opens the disc of the sun, Chief of the Dawn, bring me. Do not let me be shipless!” This is how a deceased begs on the way to the Egyptian realm of the dead. The ship pictured with this spell 99B makes it clear that the one who got into trouble is helped so that he can cross over to the other realm in the hereafter. This saying on a more than 3,400-year-old papyrus, which is on display in the special exhibition at the Papyrus Museum in Vienna that will be open to the public from Wednesday, June 14, testifies to the existential …
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