Becoming God in Ancient Egypt" (Oriental Institute Museum Publications, 2017). The "Book of the Dead" became popular during the New Kingdom, but it was derived from the "Coffin Texts" — so named ...

Known in ancient Egypt as ... parts of the Book of the Dead were drawn from funerary writings known as the Pyramid Texts, which date back as far as the Egyptian Old Kingdom, to as early as ...

Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, Nat Geo Image Collection Then, around 2200 B.C., ancient texts suggest that Egypt’s so-called Old Kingdom gave ... dark age of Egyptian history.

Egyptian archaeologists recently found an ancient sword belonging to the ... He is believed to be the pharaoh that ruled over Egypt in the Book of Exodus. According to biblical accounts, Moses ...

By the era of the New Kingdom of Egypt, which began in about 1550 B.C., these game boards had acquired a religious symbolism, appearing in the Egyptian Book ... of ancient Egypt's history, play ...