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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Hence “the Hebrew psalmist drew a picture of divine protection from the sheltering wings of the Egyptian Sun-god” (p. 376), and “the Egyptian Sun-god . . . was therefore among the influences ...

Gold and serpentinite rockWhere it is from: Thebes (modern-day Luxor), EgyptWhen it was made: Around 1473 B.C.Related: Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield ...

Even those who know little of ancient Egypt’s mysteries have heard of the infamous Book of the Dead.And now, researchers have found a similar text that not only predates that one, but may also ...

Fox and Sullivan emphasize that the Victorian view of mummies was often steeped in misconceptions. “For example, in mummy movies, including Brendan Fraser’s The Mummy, there’s always a focus on the ...

The afterlife as portrayed in the Book of the Dead is one of elaborate and baroque intensity, as full of trials and grotesqueries as an average day in 1550 B.C. must have been—which is about the ...