The afterlife as portrayed in the Book of the Dead is one of elaborate and baroque intensity, as full of trials and grotesqueries as an average day in 1550 B.C. must have been—which is about the ...

Queen of summer books Elin Hilderbrand returns with "The Five-Star Weekend" while Ken Jennings pens a guide to the afterlife this week in new books.

Jennings' new book, 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife, takes on his knowledge of just about everything, and attempts to extend it to the great unknown: death.

Ken Jennings at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif., in April. The “Jeopardy!” host's new book is “100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife.” (Christina ...

“We are very concerned about getting things right.” It’s the same approach Jennings took with his new book, “100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife.” ...

Papyri from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, a series of spells designed to help guide the dead through the afterlife, will be at the centre of a new show at the British Museum this November.

The "Book of the Dead" became popular during the New Kingdom, but it was derived from the "Coffin Texts" — so named because they were often written on coffins — and the "Pyramid Texts" that ...

The scroll, which was revealed as part of a presentation of archaeological finds from the Tuna al-Gebel cemetery in central Egypt, is estimated to be 43 to 49 feet long.