India. Annual average income for software engineer/developer in India is around 650,000 INR per year and average income for more experienced senior software developer is around 900,000 INR or more. Data from the end of year 2011.
Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge. The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. The name Book of the Dead was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of some texts in 1842.
advertisement. We always laugh at movies about ancient Egypt when someone drags out the Book of the Dead, as if it was a real book. But the Book of the Dead is not a book. It's a nickname for the many magical spells that the ancient Egyptians believed actually worked. Egyptologists have deciphered about 200 different spells, most written to help the ancient Egyptians reach their afterlife safely.