By comparing the 4,000-year-old language to Greek, scientists have an idea of what ancient Egyptian sounded like.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...