How long does it take to read The Book of the Dead?
E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer, Foy Scalf, Paul Mirecki
The Book of the Dead by E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer, Foy Scalf, Paul Mirecki takes about 9 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 46 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1894. 533 pages, about 146,575 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 85 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls of papyri. This book is the treatise and analysis of The Book of the Dead, (also known as Spells of Coming and Forth by Day), by Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Cults, Religion, Book of the dead, History, Nonfiction
