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 ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have brought to light a remarkably preserved funerary papyrus that specialists are already calling a lost “Book of the Dead,” a discovery that folds fresh detail into ...

Ancient Egypt is known for a great many things — pyramids, mummies, colorful gods and magic. But one of the least known of these is the the Book of the Dead, which was supposed to guide the soul into ...

Ra, in the form of a cat beheading the sepent Apep and so defeating the foes of Neb-er-djer (Atum) and ensuring the triumph of light over darkness. Behind him is the sacred persea tree, the point from ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead ...