Richard Dawkins’s ‘book of the dead’ is an old-fashioned delight
What, do you suppose, is the closest living relative of the hippopotamus? The rhinoceros, perhaps? The pig? In fact, it’s the ...
‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’: Reading Starts With DNA
For Richard Dawkins, the history of life is like a novel that never ends. Revisions can be dramatic.
‘The Egyptian Book of the Dead’ Review: An Ancient Guide to the Afterlife
About 3,500 years ago, did the Egyptian woman named Webennesre feel comforted at all being accompanied in death by a papyrus ...
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Archaeologists Found the Lost ‘Book of the Dead’ Buried in an Egyptian Cemetery
A particularly exciting find was a Book of the Dead papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare surviving copy of the traditional burial item. The team behind the find was mum on the ...
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Book of the Dead for the Chantress of Amun Nauny
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‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’: Reading Starts With DNA
In his intellectually sparkling and beautifully crafted “The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie,” Richard Dawkins argues that, unlike the unfinished works of human literature ...
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Richard Dawkins’s ‘book of the dead’ is an old-fashioned delight
The “genetic book of the dead” is a sort of palimpsest of all our ancestors and the worlds they lived in. Humans, for example, still have some of the genes that probably gave our ancestors a ...