Anonymous ID: 92a465 Jan. 1, 2020, 10:29 p.m. No.7690501   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0502 >>0526 >>0549 >>0642 >>0776 >>0818 >>0854 >>0866 >>0905

>>7690480

big fucking notable

Brought the extended sauce for you, anon, but its a long article so didnt get it all.

 

An Afterlife So Perilous, You Needed a Guidebook

Archaeologists unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old โ€œBook of Two Waysโ€ โ€” a guide to the Egyptian underworld, and the earliest copy of the first illustrated book.

 

Dec. 30, 2019

 

When it comes to difficult travel, no journey outside New York Cityโ€™s subway system rivals the ones described in โ€œThe Book of Two Ways,โ€ a mystical road map to the ancient Egyptian afterlife.

 

This usersโ€™ guide, a precursor to the corpus of Egyptian funerary texts known as โ€œThe Book of the Dead,โ€ depicted two zigzagging paths by which, scholars long ago concluded, the soul, having left the body of the departed, could navigate the spiritual obstacle course of the Underworld and reach Rostau โ€” the realm of Osiris, the god of death, who was himself dead. If you were lucky enough to get the go-ahead from Osirisโ€™ divine tribunal, you would become an immortal god.

 

โ€œThe ancient Egyptians were obsessed with life in all its forms,โ€ Rita Lucarelli, an Egyptology curator at the University of California, Berkeley, said. โ€œDeath for them was a new life.โ€

 

The two journeys were a kind of purgatorial odyssey reminiscent of Dungeons & Dragons: extraordinarily arduous, and so fraught with peril that they necessitated mortuary guidebooks like โ€œThe Book of Two Waysโ€ to accompany a personโ€™s spirit and ensure its safe passage. (The โ€œtwo waysโ€ refer to the options a soul had for navigating the Underworld: one by land, the other by water.) Among other annoyances, the deceased had to contend with demons, scorching fire and armed doorkeepers, who protected the dead body of Osiris against gods bent on preventing his rebirth, according to Harco Willems, an Egyptologist at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Success in the afterlife required an aptitude for arcane theology, a command of potent resurrection spells and incantations and a knowledge of the names not just of Underworld doorkeepers but also of door bolts and floorboards.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/science/archaeology-books-egypt-underworld.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Anonymous ID: 92a465 Jan. 1, 2020, 10:36 p.m. No.7690532   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>7690519

Because its knowledge they dont want us to know, which is why they jump all over it with rhetoric.

Any anon who has been in here for even a short length of time knows ANYTHING Egyptian newly discovered is almost always notable.