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Showing posts with label egyptian life after death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label egyptian life after death. Show all posts
Friday, November 18, 2011
National Geographic: Egypt Underworld (2009)
New excavations are revealing more than we've ever known about Egyptian life after death. To the ancient Egyptians, life after death was a high-stakes underworld journey fraught with terrifying obstacles: fiery lakes of death, battles with bona fide monsters, and ultimately eternal death or resurrection with the sun. It's a journey each Egyptian believed was real, and for the pharaoh the stakes were even higher – the entire cosmos depended on the king's successful journey and resurrection. Now, new excavations are revealing more than we've ever known about what the Egyptians knew they'd encounter on their afterlife journey. Today Dr. Zahi Hawass is excavating a mysterious tunnel at the very bottom of Seti's tomb; a perilous tunnel dug far below the surface of the earth. On a true Indiana-Jones style quest in which Dr. Hawass will put his own life in jeopardy for the sake of discovery.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Egyptian Book of the Dead
(Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Any, courtesy of Egypt`s Book of the Dead)
A comprehensive view into the Egyptian Book of the Dead, funerary texts containing magical spells and prayers intended to assist the deceased journey through the underworld, Amduat as the Egyptians called it, to the eventual afterlife. (Video courtesy of egypttripontop)
Monday, January 3, 2011
Egypt Underworld
Explore and learn what the ancient Egyptians held so scared to them - the Afterlife
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