Ancient embalmers dipped a piece of red linen in a plant-based concoction before applying the cloth to the deceased's face. Ida Christensen / University of Copenhagen Egyptian mummies have fascinated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here we see a photo of a section of the Book of the Dead. Hieroglyphics are on the bottom and illustrations of people doing ...

The scroll contains the oldest known instructions for embalming the dead. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The oldest known ...

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 ...

A new book by Montasser Thabet takes readers on a journey through time to understand how the ancient Egyptians lived, . The author writes in his introduction that he compiled the stories from five ...