An exhibition at the Getty reveals the Egyptian Book ... waste (Spells 52 and 53). In a hellscape primed with booby traps and populated by some of antiquity’s most fearful imaginings, magic ...

An ancient Egyptian handbook containing magic spells has been deciphered ... They told LiveScience they believe the spells were originally from separate books, but were later combined to create ...

Collections of funerary spells - such as the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead ... of their living relatives. 'Witchcraft, Magic and Divination in Ancient Egypt' by JF Borghouts in ...

Among the inscriptions are excerpts from the Book of the Dead—a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary texts consisting of spells or magic formulas that were placed in tombs. These texts were ...

Magic. It can bring good things, like prosperity, or bad, like a cow that goes dry. Good or bad, white or black, magic is as old as dirt. It seems nearly everyone has a bit of belief in it ...

The number of books on witchcraft has been on ... now offer an eclectic mix of authors who draw magic from a range of sources—from ancient times to modern trends, and from distant lands and ...

Archaeologists excavating a 3,500-year-old cemetery have discovered an ancient Egyptian "Book of the Dead" filled with spells to guide the deceased in the afterlife. The scroll, which was revealed ...