Genesis

How does one exactly "review" a source text? Professor Erik Hornung has translated these various "books" that the elite among the Ancient Egyptians brought with them into the afterlife in their tombs and such places into his native German. From there, a certain David Lorton has translated it into English, for all those monoglots out there who only speak the language of dreaded globalization; English. Throughout the book it... Read Full Review

great sequence of hieroglyphs - from the oldest tombs to new - forgotten knowledge stayed forgotten - read Sitchin's collection for the Truth... man's last 1/2 million years of history...

Egyptologists tend to focus mostly on the Book of the Dead, ignoring lesser known texts to a large degree. Here the author offers a concise and detailed summary and explanation of other ancient Egyptian texts. Included here are the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, the Book of the Dead, the Books of Breathing, the Amduat, the Spell of the Twelve Caves, the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns, the Book of the Earth, the Book... Read Full Review

Hornung presents us with a fascinating wealth of Egyptian lore. The texts present in the book are fully translated into layman's English, and almost all portions are followed with the copies of the accompinying reliefs and frescoes. This is a magnificent work that allows the reader, whatever his background, to gain some insight into the oft-misunderstood religion of the Ancient Egypt.

Erik Hornung has done a great service in making the ancient Egyptian Books of the Underworld understandable to both the average and trained reader with an interest in ancient Egyptian religion and its texts. David Lorton's translation of Hornung's original German text is excellent,and reflects both Hornung's written German and English lecture styles in describing such concepts as the reuniting of the ba of Osiris with Ra,... Read Full Review