The "'Book of the Dead' denotes the relatively large corpus of mortuary texts that were typically copied onto papyrus scrolls and deposited in burials of the New Kingdom [circa 1550 B.C. to 1070 B ...

Once again Saqqara reveals more of it’s hidden secrets to us, as archaeologists on a different site in Saqqara have found ...

The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

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 ...

A 3,500-year-old cemetery in Egypt with 'Book of the Dead' papyrus and mummies has been uncovered, according to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

David Gange never explicitly explains the title of his book, nor does he develop the metaphor of dialogues with dead. Nevertheless, his splendid cultural history of British Egyptology is an ...