Even those who know little of ancient Egypt’s mysteries have heard of the infamous Book of the Dead. And now, researchers ...

They loved life and wanted it to continue in the afterlife The Book of the Dead contained all the spells, tips and tricks any Ancient Egyptian could need to survive the afterlife. It started as a ...

For this purpose, they crafted the ancient Book of the Dead, which was unearthed from an Egyptian elite tomb. A new study published in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology focused on a new artifact ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

Follow the story - spanning more than 4,000 years - of the ancient scroll, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is thought to have influenced not only the Old ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

The ancient ... (ancient Egyptian paper) that was over 17 feet long. It shows a singer named Nany on her journey into the afterlife. The hieroglyphs are phrases from the 'Book of the Dead'.

To ancient Egyptians, gold, luminous as the sun ... as a temporary phase before immortality, but the various books of the dead didn’t spell out precisely how long the bandages stayed on.

They mark the site of the ancient city Meroë ... the burial chamber was decorated with scenes from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. A wooden coffin, depicting the dead person’s face, was placed ...