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

Harco WillemsFragments from a Book of Two Ways ... “Death for them was a new life.” Now, researchers have yet again uncovered evidence that ancient Egypt’s elaborate death customs sometimes ...

The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians ... preoccupied with thoughts of death. On the contrary, they began early to make plans for their death because of their ...

Egyptologist, Dr Joann Fletcher investigates what everyday life was like in ancient Egypt for an ordinary person. Joann explores how the people of Egypt lived by exploring their tombs, touring ...

Death should not be seen as the end of life but as the beginning of eternity, Pope Francis said in words he wrote only days ...

But after his death ... A new book, The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom at the University of Leicester, UK, pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered ...