Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a "Book of the Dead" papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare ...

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum noticed that an image of a jackal on a 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus had been modified with white fluid, according to an ArtNet News report. The ...

As Fitzwilliam Museum experts prepared a “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, they noticed an unusual white substance applied to a papyrus Book of the Dead. Upon digital and infrared inspection, the team ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum. A detail of the gilded Book of the Dead of Ankhmerwer, a funerary ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead ...