Which Egyptologist made the first translation of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead in 1842?

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Which Egyptologist made the first translation of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead in 1842?

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In 1842, the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius called Todtenbuch (Book of the Dead) a papyrus kept in the Egyptian Museum of Turin and of which he made a first translation.