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 ...

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 ...

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Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

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.

Egyptian archaeologists recently located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. A particularly exciting find was a Book of the Dead papyrus scroll ...

Colorful paintings of daily life in ancient Egypt have been discovered in a tomb dating back more than 4,300 years.. The tomb, known as a mastaba, was found in the pyramid necropolis of Dahshur ...