Book of the Dead unearthed in Egypt

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That's a significant time within the Egyptian history and please keep us updated on any curses that may arise.

I just thumbed through "The Book of the Dead" for the first time.

Not at all what I expected.

Explain please.

I think I may have watched too many movies. 

Honestly, I was expecting something like the movie The Mummy, or Evil Dead Lol Something with more kick to it.
 I had actually just read The Key of Solomon, and that wasn't what I had expected either. That was a very interesting read. That book plays like a witchcraft guide, but I believe it would be considered more white magic (or good magic as a posed to evil magic). 
The Book of the Dead, as much as I could tell in a hour of thumbing through it, reads pretty straight forward as Funeral/ceremonial instructions along with what to say to this god (and who they are) at this level, and so on. Simply presenting this item to this god and saying this prayer/admonition to reqch the next level. It actually does read like a text book to paradise; as the Egyptians saw the afterlife. Just sort of cut and dry though. 

As am sitting here trying to put into words how I see TBotD it actually kinda reads like the Bible, but with funeral/burial instructions included.

Don't get me wrong, its interesting, and I will go back and give it a solid read. I was just expecting something darker, I guess. It honestly wasn't much different of a text than the Bible, in a way. Just multi-god and ceremonial entrance into paradise.

Like I started this post off with...I may have watched too many movies in my life. (ha)

A manual for the afterlife is a big deal.