The Book of Caves, also called the Book of Cemeteries and the Book of Caves, is an important ancient Egyptian funerary book on the underworld that appeared in the era of the modern state and like all other books of the underworld, it is engraved inside the tombs of kings for the benefit of the deceased in other life as he describes the journey of the sun god Ra through the caves states That the underworld consists of, with an emphasis on the interaction between the sun god and the inhabitants of the underworld, including rewards for the righteous and the penalties for enemies of the earthly system (the law), those who did not successfully prosecute them before Osiris in the afterlife and the tomb book is one of the best sources of information About the Egyptian concept S Diem from hell.
And the emergence of the book of tombs dates back to the 13th century BC, i.e. in the Ramesside era and the oldest known version of this work on the left side of the Osirians (godmother) in Abydos from the era of Pharaoh Merneptah and later appears in the tomb of Ramses IV in the Valley of the Kings and are the scenes that It was already recorded by the founding father of Egyptology Jean François Champollion in his letters from Egypt.
It is like the two great books on his underworld. The book of graves first and foremost describes the journey of the sun god (Ra) from the western horizon to the eastern horizon through the underworld, except that he meets a group of divine creatures and interact with them and the important milestones in his journey are:
The caves of the dead, arranged in the afterlife, are now divine creatures (the first and second paintings).
The cave of Osiris and the corpses of the sun god himself (painting 3).
Exit the underworld at sunrise (final plate).
During his journey, the sun god passes over the caves of Hell in which any enemies of public order are destroyed (i.e. the enemies of Ra and Osiris). This book of caves (the book of graves) gives some hints about the perceived topographical structure of the other world.
The book of caves (the book of graves) does not have any ancient original title, and it is not divided into the night hours as the underworld wrote except that from this, it contains seven wonderful paintings and scenes that approximate 80 different scenes and are divided into two parts with three panels each, as well To the final plate.
And the Book of Caves (Book of Cemeteries) is much more literary than other funerary books from the modern state, such as the Book of the Hereafter or the Book of Gates, as it does not contain pictures as much as other books, but it exceeds it in its content of the text.
