The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

On Nov. 1, the Getty Villa Museum opened its new show “The Egyptian Book of the Dead,” drawing on its collection of manuscripts and objects from the ancient civilization. Despite viewing audiences’ ...

About 3,500 years ago, did the Egyptian woman named Webennesre feel comforted at all being accompanied in death by a papyrus now on display at the Getty Villa exhibition “The Egyptian Book of ...

We dispel the myths surrounding this ancient text and reveal its true purpose. We reveal the true purpose of the ancient text, discover more about the ancient Egyptian people and their ...

Archeologists recently recovered a nearly 16-meter (52-foot) long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. The writing — which is more than 2,000 years old — was found inside a ...

The discovery of a papyrus related to the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead sparked wild online reactions.

A detail from a Book of the Dead segment, housed at the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy. The scenes on this version of the book are similar to those seen on the fragments in New Zealand and Los ...

As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.

Egyptian 'Book of the Dead' scroll dating back from 1550 BC found in ancient cemetery, Reports further explain that although there are nearly 200 known spells, they were not exactly collected into ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...