Egyptian Book of the Dead, at British Museum, Seven magazine review. An absorbing exhibition shows the Ancient Egyptians were not obsessed with death – they just wanted to live forever.

Art World Archaeologists Have Discovered the World’s Oldest Illustrated Book in an Ancient Egyptian Burial Site. The writings were intended to aid the deceased through the underworld.

4,000-Year-Old Guide to the Ancient Egyptian Underworld May Be Oldest Illustrated ‘Book’ Archaeologists recovered the remnants of an ancient “Book of Two Ways” from a sarcophagus ...

Peter Dornan, former curator of Egyptian art at The Met, translated the cuneiform script on Hatnefer's heart scarab as follows:. The Mistress of the House, Hatnefer, says: "Heart of my mother ...

Archaeologists unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old “Book of Two Ways” — a guide to the Egyptian underworld, and the earliest copy of the first illustrated book.

As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.

Professor of Egyptian art and architecture Kara Cooney has been writing her latest book, “The Good Kings,” over the past two years. With a study of five pharaohs of ancient Egypt, Cooney aims ...

Following a three year conservation project, the final section of the rare, Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose (c. 1539-1292 BCE) will go on long-term view at the ...

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, British Museum, review. A new show at the British Museum brings us face to face with our darkest imaginings, ... So far, I haven’t talked much about art.

As Egyptian life changed rather than ended, so the eye travels down and across the texts, along the papyri, from wordly symbol to symbolic word. To look at a Book of the Dead is both to imagine a ...