Also known as The Papyrus of Ani, the text was written and illustrated c.1250 B.C.E. by unknown artists and scribes. Chiefly concerned with the after life, the book is a guide to the next world and was part of a larger body of religious literature, a product of a polytheistic culture. Word, image and reality are united in Egyptian thought and "text and scene seemingly engage in constant conversation." The scroll was discovered in Egypt in 1888, cut and mounted on board and sent to The British Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.