Translation
Jean François Champollion first wrote about the Book of Caverns from the tomb of Ramesses VI providing some translations. Scholars, however, were not greatly interested in the book until about a century later when the second complete version of the text was discovered in the Osireion. In 1933 Henri Frankfort tried to write the first complete translation of the book with the help of Adriaan de Buck. It was not completely translated into English until 1941.
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