About 3,500 years ago, did the Egyptian woman named Webennesre feel comforted at all being accompanied in death by a papyrus now on display at the Getty Villa exhibition “The Egyptian Book of the Dead ...

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 ...

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 ...

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