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‘The Papyrus of Ani’

Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge

(1857-1936)

‘Papyrus of Ani’ 19th Dynasty, c1250 BC – Book of the Dead
“Now, among the houses that were sealed and guarded was a small one

that abutted on the wall of the garden of the old Luxor Hotel. This house

was a source of considerable anxiety to me, for in it I had stored the tins

containing the papyri... It appears incredible, but the whole of the digging

was carried out without the knowledge of the watchmen on the roof of the
house and the sentries outside it...It was in this way that we saved the

Papyrus of Ani and all the rest of my acquisitions from the officials of the

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Service of Antiquities, and all Luxor rejoiced ”
E. A. T. W. Budge

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