Enlarge / Sample illustration from an Egyptian Book of the Dead—not the newly discovered papyrus—depicting the “weighing of the heart.”Public domain
Archaeologists have confirmed that a papyrus scroll discovered at the Saqquara necropolis site near Cairo last year does indeed contain texts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead—the first time a complete papyrus has been found in a century, according to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt. The scroll has been dubbed the “Waziri papyrus.” It is currently being translated into Arabic.
Fans of the 1999 film The Mummy know that the Egyptian Book
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