Books Received; Published: 24 August 1899 The Book of the Dead Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerāsher and Netchemet, with Supplementary Text from the Papyrus of Nu, with Transcripts ...

The Book of the Dead was given its name by a German Egyptologist, Karl Richard Lepsius, in 1842. He called the compilation the “Todtenbuch,” but it is not really a book at all, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have digitally reunited two fragments of a 2,300-year-old linen mummy wrapping covered in hieroglyphics from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. As Laura Geggel reports for Live ...

An exhibition at the Getty reveals the Egyptian Book of the Dead, long relegated to a dark vault, in the light of day. A piece of the Papyrus of Pasherashakhet, dated roughly to 375 B.C. to 275 B ...

The exhibition will include the longest Book of the Dead in the world, the Greenfield Papyrus, which is 37 metres long and has never been shown publicly in its entirety before.