But beyond the monumental and the majestic everyday life, ancient Egypt was also full of innovation, practicality, and artistic touches. The Egyptians created and used a variety of objects that ...

offering them instead as objects used in the funerary rites of Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife. On a practical level, if the clay troughs were supposed to functions as stands ...

A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian ... objects are in fact a key part of the complex rituals which would ensure the transformation and regeneration of the young king in the ...

Great news for all young Egyptologists: there’s a wonderfully educational temporary exhibition currently running in London ...

Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian burial ... the promise, unique to Egyptian theology at that time, of an eternal afterlife of splendor. By contrast, “Greek ideas for the ...

Contrary to common belief, these combats did not only take place in the ... buried with offerings for the afterlife. This is seen in some graves at Driffield Terrace, where bodies are accompanied by ...

She said the ancient objects ... they wanted to take with them in death, or what their family members wanted to leave with the deceased in order to supply them for the afterlife.” ...

The significance of these objects had been overlooked and deemed as unremarkable, but they played an important role in ancient Egyptian funerary ... the official afterlife beliefs focused on ...

The Ancient Greeks used black and white pebbles ... They brought a bright red from Egypt, called ‘Porphyry’. Many members of our team worked before with famous and sadly missed Cypriot artist ...

On display are 50 stunning funerary objects from the pharaoh’s tomb and 70 pieces from other ancient tombs and temples, dating from 1550 to 1305 B.C. On loan from the Egyptian National Museum in ...