I noticed an interesting article in the travel section of USA Today about an exhibit opening at the British Museum in London today, running through March. It guides visitors through the famed Egyptian "Book of the Dead.” USA Today reports:
A major new exhibition at the British Museum hopes to shed new light on the book, which was not a single volume, but a series of spells and illustrations inked onto papyrus scrolls and designed to help the dead make the perilous journey to the afterlife.
So I headed over to the British Museum website to find out a little more about the exhibit. According to their main page on the exhibition:
Many of the examples of the Book of the Dead in the