Papyrus covered, flat circular hypocephalus with a thin coating of plaster, decorated with underworld scenes and hieroglyphic texts: Ancient Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, c.305-30 BC

Glazed sheet of papyrus written in black ink with fifteen lines of hieratic script consisting of a chapter from the Book of the Dead, dedicated to the God's Father Paiistjenef: Ancient Egyptian, 3rd Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, c.1069-945 BC

Funerary papyrus of Tanuat, wife of Montsuef written in demotic and hieratic scripts on a roll of papyrus and illustrated with coloured vignettes: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, excavated by A.H. Rhind in the tomb of Montsuef, Roman Period, 9 BC

Fragment of papyrus inscribed in Greek with part of a medical treatise: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Oxyrhynchus, Roman period, early 3rd century AD

Papyrus of Montsuef, funerary roll of papyrus, written in demotic and hieratic scripts and illustrated with coloured vignettes: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, excavated by A.H. Rhind in the tomb of Montsuef, Roman Period, 9 BC

Four framed fragments of the Book of the Dead of the Vizier Useramun containing spells 119, 7 and 99, originally written in semi-cursive hieroglyphs on a roll of papyrus, of which only 11 fragments survive: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, mid 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose IV, c.1479-1457 BC

Fragment of papyrus inscribed in Greek with the ends of lines of Homer's Odyssey xvii, 410-428: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Oxyrhynchus, Graeco-Roman period, late 1st century BC

Abbreviated Second Document of Breathing, amuletic papyrus inscribed with eleven lines of hieratic script, discovered with the body of mummified male child Petamūn (A.1956.357 C) : Ancient Egyptian, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c. 175 - 200 AD

Abbreviated Book of Breathing, amuletic papyrus inscribed with eleven lines of hieratic script, discovered with the body of mummified male child Penhōrpabik (A.1956.357 B) : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Roman Period, c. 175 - 200 AD

Four framed fragments of the Book of the Dead of the Vizier Useramun containing spells 38 A, 14, 23, 24, and 25, originally written in semi-cursive hieroglyphs on a roll of papyrus, of which only 11 fragments survive: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, mid 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose IV

Three framed fragments of the Book of the Dead of the Vizier Useramun containing spells 27, 43, 30 A, 26, 28, 30 B, originally written in semi-cursive hieroglyphs on a roll of papyrus, of which only 11 fragments survive: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, mid 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose IV

A fragment of a vignette from a Book of the Dead, depicting the judgement of the dead, painted in polychrome on papyrus: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 25th/26th Dynasty