Weighing the Heart, Book of the Dead

Jon Bodsworth

by Jon Bodsworth
published on 26 April 2012

Weighing the Heart, Book of the Dead — Weighing of the heart scene, with Ammit, the 'Devourer of the Damned' sitting, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead of Hunefer, Egypt, 19th Dynasty.

The British Museum, London.

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