A mysterious king with a green faceWhen looking at the gods of ancient Egypt, you will encounter a god with a particularly ...

By what are people judged after death? In Egypt, the heart has been weighed; in Greece, fate itself; and in China, the weight ...

To be human is to wonder what happens after we die. Is there an afterlife? If so, what does it look like? But a question you may not have asked yourself is: what does the afterlife smell like? To ...

The people who clustered along the Nile River in ancient times didn’t call their land Egypt. They called it Kemet — literally, “the black land,” so named for the fertile soil suffused by nutrients ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been thousands of years, but still, much of ancient Egypt's mummification practices remain hidden in history. But now, ...

A tomb dating back 1,700 years has been uncovered in the Dakhla Oasis region of Egypt. This burial site features a Greek ...

If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, it was assumed that this was simply due to age and decay. However, ...

“Life and the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection” is on view at the Carlos Museum Feb. 4 – Aug. 6. Shown: Model Solar Boat. Egyptian. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca.

About 3,500 years ago, did the Egyptian woman named Webennesre feel comforted at all being accompanied in death by a papyrus now on display at the Getty Villa exhibition “The Egyptian Book of the Dead ...