but over time all Egyptians, both rich and poor, could possess its secrets. The Book of the Dead helped Egyptians prepare for the afterlife where Osiris, god of the underworld, would judge them.

Unlike the typical papyrus scrolls used by ancient Egyptians, this book had pages ... beneath the river long before recorded history. After the book was carefully dried and preserved, linguistic ...

The "Book of the Dead" is a modern-day name given to a series of ancient Egyptian texts that the Egyptians believed would help the dead navigate the underworld, as well as serving other purposes.

The title of present tome hides the fact that the book includes a history of Egypt during the era under study; an era that has not received as much attention from historians, let alone analysts or ...

Last week, the Egyptian Print Censorship Authority held a shipment of history textbooks that was headed to the American University in Cairo (AUC). Everyone involved must have been puzzled. Khaled ...

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 ...