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

Do Egyptian mythology books focus on history or fantasy? It depends on the book! Some, like The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

The "'Book of the Dead' denotes the relatively large corpus of mortuary texts that were typically copied onto papyrus scrolls and deposited in burials of the New Kingdom [circa 1550 B.C. to 1070 B ...

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 ...

An exhibition at the Getty reveals the Egyptian Book of the Dead, long relegated to a dark vault, in the light of day. A piece of the Papyrus of Pasherashakhet, dated roughly to 375 B.C. to 275 B ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a copy of the "Book of the Dead" in an ancient Egyptian cemetery. The document was used by Egyptian priests to guide the dead to the afterlife. Alongside the scroll ...