The Book of What Is in the Duat

Traditions

Egyptian religion and magic

Role in the tradition

Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.

Public attention

Landmark Wikipedia has an article about it in 25 languages.

• Budge's translation, as The Book of Am-Tuat ↗ sacred-texts.com checked against the Internet Archive's copy of July 07, 2025, because the site refuses scripts · archived copy

The Amduat is an important ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom of Egypt. Similar to previous funerary texts, such as the Old Kingdom's Pyramid Texts, or the First Intermediate Period's Coffin Texts, the Amduat was found carved on the internal walls of a pharaoh's tomb. Unlike other funerary texts, however, it was reserved almost exclusively for pharaohs until the Twenty-first Dynasty, or very select nobility.

From the Wikipedia article Amduat, revision 1373016864, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q460509: “literary work”.