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

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

sarcophagus, nor mummy remains. But what survives hints at its lost splendor. "I think it would have been a very richly-equipped burial for this period in ancient Egypt," Wegner says. "The ...