Egyptian excerpts and manuscripts uncover the ancient traditions about how the people mused about life and prepared for the afterlife. (Getty Museum) On Nov. 1, the Getty Villa Museum opened its new ...

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 the Dead ...

The establishment of such great edifice passed through several stages, forms, and different names until it became the “General Egyptian Book Organization”, which is entrusted with publishing the ...

Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead” papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare ...

The Egyptian book of the dead could be the oldest document in human history, and the foundation of western civilization. This amazing scroll of secrets is brought back to life.

Archaeologists in Egypt have made a significant discovery: a lost cemetery dating back 3,500 years, containing a wealth of ...