He was the owner of the Papyrus of Hunefer, a copy of the funerary Egyptian Book of the Dead, which represents one of the classic examples of these texts, along with others such as the Papyrus of Ani.
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"Book of the Dead" (with Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, in 2000 AD #859-866, 1993, tpb, Hamlyn, 1996, ISBN 0-7493-9692-X)
Next, it is mainly composed of footage of Varg driving a Lada car from 1988 while reciting excerpts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead intercut with footage of Marie and her three children participating in ancient pagan rituals.
They realised the text was potentially important, but wrongly concluded that it was a transliteration of the Egyptian Book of the Dead in the Arabic script.
Fremantle, Francesca & Chögyam Trungpa (1975) The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo by Guru Rinpoche according to Karma Lingpa. Boulder: Shambhala ISBN 0-394-73064-X, ISBN 1-59030-059-9 (reissued 2003).
Muriel Rukeyser wrote a poetry sequence, "The Book of the Dead", about this disaster, which can be found in her book, U.S. 1 (published in 1938).