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 ...

Harco WillemsFragments from a Book of Two Ways discovered on the coffin of a woman named Ankh inside the necropolis of Deir el-Bersha. Even those who know little of ancient Egypt’s mysteries ...

and published formulated statements of the history of Egypt derived from the comparatively newly-acquired decipherment of hieroglyphics are not yet thirty years old; books on Egyptian history are ...

The precise rules are lost to history, but players had to move a ... appearing in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The game seemed to represent the soul's journey through the afterlife.

the Grand Egyptian Museum looked to be making history. Egypt is finally allowing the public to view some of the 700,000 years' worth of antiquities devoted to four eras of history on a plot the ...