In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

Egyptians had various beliefs that were associated with the burial of the dead, which included burial strategies, grave goods, and afterlife navigation. The afterlife was a battle, and the dead ...

He was now ready for his journey to the Afterlife. The mummy was placed in his coffin, or coffins, in the burial chamber and the entrance sealed up. Such elaborate burial practices might suggest that ...

In ancient Egypt ... on their journey to the afterlife. Once mummified, the body was placed in a sarcophagus or coffin and sealed within a tomb. For pharaohs, the burial process was even more ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient ... the afterlife. Its use both in burial practice and in artwork speaks to the strong connection to health, power, and favor with the gods in Egyptian ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

But ancient Egyptian religion had countless ... that they are crucial components of his burial. They confirm Tutankhamun as both renewed in death through Osiris, and the king who restored order to ...

One of Egypt’s oldest cities, Abydos was a center for the cult of the god Osiris, a synthesis of different Egyptian beliefs about death ... equipped burial for this period in ancient Egypt ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we're dead ...