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After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as human beings is the matter of our mortality–and its connection to immorality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal salvation, Muslim belief in hell and paradise all spring from a remarkably consistent impulse to tether a triumph... »
Musée de la Civilisacion website is fun an educational
Musée de la Civilisacion is located in Quebec, Canada. Their latest exhibit takes you back to ancient Egypt to learn about the process behind mummification, and the significance of the rituals these desert dwellers engaged in to secure a blissful afterlife. The exhibit website has a variety of features to engage the user in the... »
Exhibition review: Gates of Heaven at the Louvre
Image via Wikipedia Ancient Egyptian tombs and mortuary temples usually featured stone stelae, or markers, which were carved to resemble doors or gateways, and these seem to have had a symbolic function as ways of access to the dead. Investigation of the function of such gateways is one part of the exhibition’s remit, but the... »
Review – To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum
For ancient Egyptians, death was the easy part. Gaining eternity was, regardless of rank, a journey that makes Dante’s Inferno look like a walk in the park. And though they could not buy their way into the afterlife, those with means definitely had a strong advantage. That is the context of “To Live Forever:... »
"To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum" at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida
Ancient Egyptian culture was founded on the belief in an afterlife. Elaborate burial rituals for people of all stations in life were meant to enhance the transition between this life and the next. According to Virginia Brilliant, “…the Egyptians really loved life, they loved their life on earth, they had a very joyous life.” She... »
Book Review: Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God
Osiris, ruler of the netherworld, played a central part in the religious life of the ancient Egyptians, and his cult grew in popularity down the ages, resonating in all the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. This is the first book to tell the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end. Drawing... »
