Hidden within the Vatican lies one of the most remarkable Egyptian collections in the world. From papal inscriptions in ...

How the Afterlife Shaped Ancient Egypt Discover why the ancient Egyptians invested so much in life after death, and how their belief in the afterlife shaped Egyptian culture.

Inside the Vatican Museum lies a breathtaking collection spanning Egypt’s dynasties—from Seti I’s resin-coated shabtis to ...

What if you could smell history? Well researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute have unraveled the ancient scent of mummification used on a prominent Egyptian woman, Senetnay, around 1,450 BC.

Here's why ancient Egyptians buried their dead with certain grave goods, such as the "Book of the Dead," gold tongues and scarabs.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, the Egyptian antiquities authority said Monday.

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 ...

The exhibition explores the belief that death was an enemy that could be vanquished, one of the primary cultural tenets of ancient Egyptian civilization. In order to survive in the next world, ...

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 ...

Scent Of The Ancient Egyptian Afterlife Revealed In Mummification Balm New analysis of ancient ingredients has allowed scientists to bottle “the scent of eternity”.