3,500-Year-Old Book of Spells to Guide The Dead Uncovered With Egyptian Mummies

www.sciencealert.com

3,500-Year-Old Book of Spells to Guide The Dead Uncovered With Egyptian Mummies

www.sciencealert.com

Lee Duna to

[email protected]English • 1 year ago

Archaeologists excavating a 3,500-year-old cemetery have discovered an ancient Egyptian "Book of the Dead" filled with spells to guide the deceased in the afterlife.

Chat

@TastyWheat
link
English
5•1 year ago
The black book gives life, the gold book takes it away.

I DON’T KNOW THIS SYMBOL! IT’S… A BIRD…?

[email protected]

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Welcome to c/Archaeology @ Mander.xyz!

Shovelbums welcome. 🗿

Notice Board

This is a work in progress, please don’t mind the mess.

2023-06-15: We are collecting resources for the sidebar!
2023-06-13: We are looking for mods. Send a dm to @[email protected] if interested!

About

Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more…

Rules