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Egyptians used the dead to cast spells

Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman texts describe detailed spells meant to make a person invisible. These rituals involved ...
Newsweek

Ancient Egyptian Tomb Discovered With Magic Spells Against Snake Bites

Archaeologists have discovered the "richly decorated" tomb of an ancient Egyptian dignitary that is filled with magic spells aimed at protecting against snake bites. The tomb, thought to date to the ...
AOL

Spells for the afterlife found on 52-foot papyrus scroll from ancient Egyptian tomb

Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Ancient Egyptian Burial Chamber Was Filled With Spells to Ward Off Snake Bites

Indiana Jones famously fears slithering snakes in Egyptian tombs—and apparently, so did one ancient, high-ranking dignitary. Archaeologists recently discovered a 2,500-year-old burial chamber adorned ...
Miami Herald

Spells for the afterlife found on 52-foot papyrus scroll from ancient Egyptian tomb

Archaeologists in Saqqara found an ancient, well-preserved papyrus scroll with spells from the Book of the Dead written on it, photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...