https://github.com/fitzwilliammuseum/fitz-book-of-the-dead

Since it arrived at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1922, the papyrus containing the Book of the Dead written for the supervisor of royal archives, Ramose, has remained in storage, with the exception of two sections that were displayed for about 40 years.
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Since it arrived at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1922, the papyrus containing the Book of the Dead written for the supervisor of royal archives, Ramose, has remained in storage, with the exception of two sections that were displayed for about 40 years.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fitzwilliammuseum/fitz-book-of-the-dead
• Owner: FitzwilliamMuseum
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-07-06T14:04:49.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-12T06:07:02.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-14T16:26:28.399Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: jekyll
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://book-of-the-dead.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
• Size: 7.45 MB
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• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# The Book of the Dead

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Since it arrived at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1922, the papyrus containing the Book of the Dead written for the supervisor of royal archives, Ramose, has remained in storage, with the exception of two sections that were displayed for about 40 years. As a result, the beautiful colours of the pictures (vignettes) which illustrate the papyrus and the borders have remained in unusually good condition.

Egyptian Books of the Dead were provided as part of a person’s burial equipment to ensure his or her safety in the afterlife.

For the period of the exhibition (this exhibition was held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 19 June to 16 September 2007) almost the whole papyrus can be viewed for the first time since its burial in Ramose’s tomb in the 13th century BC.

## To run locally

* Install Jekyll on your machine following these [instructions](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/)

* Install Git on your machine following these [instructions](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)

* Clone the code for this repository:

   `git clone https://github.com/FitzwilliamMuseum/fitz-book-of-the-dead.git reponame`

* Install the gems

   `bundle install`

* Change to the directory and then run this command in terminal `bundle exec jekyll serve`

## Credits

Website by [@portableant](https://github.com/portableant)

## License

GPL V3 for code, CC-BY-NC-SA-ND for content (text and images) unless stated otherwise.

## Contributing guidelines

If you want to contribute fixes to this site, you are very welcome to do so. To do this, either add a [bug report under issues](https://github.com/FitzwilliamMuseum/fitz-book-of-the-dead/issues) or fork the repository and create a new branch for proposed fixes and then submit a pull request.