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 in Saqqara found an ancient, well-preserved papyrus scroll with spells from the Book of the Dead ... the ancient Egyptian god of the dead, researchers said. The rest of the scroll ...

The spells were often illustrated. "Pictures [were] of great importance in the New Kingdom collection of funerary texts now called the Egyptian Book of the Dead," wrote Geraldine Pinch ...

Archaeologists excavating a 3,500-year-old cemetery have discovered an ancient Egyptian "Book of the Dead" filled with spells to guide the deceased in the afterlife. The scroll, which was revealed ...

For centuries, Egyptian ... the spells and the assigning of a chapter number to each is the system still used to study them today. However, there is no uniform version of the Book of the Dead.

The papyrus scroll was fully restored and translated at Tahrir's Egyptian ... no single Book of the Dead and no specific canon for it, the exact details varied, with different "spells" having ...

You may like Apollo gold ring with 'healing serpent' found in 2,000-year-old tomb in Greece 3,200-year-old Egyptian ... of the Book of the Dead. The Book of the Dead is a series of spells that ...

Egyptian excerpts and manuscripts uncover the ancient ... the tradition of preparing individuals for the afterlife. Consisting of almost 200 spells, the Book of the Dead was meant to equip the ...

About 3,500 years ago, did the Egyptian woman ... exhibition “The Egyptian Book of the Dead”? Dating from between 1479 and 1400 B.C., the papyrus contains a “spell,” an incantation ...