Exhibition at the British Museum Brings Ancient Book of the Dead to Life

LONDON (AP).- As self-help manuals go, the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead has certainly stood the test of time.  For centuries, the 3,500-year-old guidebook offered Egyptians a step-by-step guide to the journey from this life to the next. It remains famous, if poorly understood — a spooky collection of arcane symbols, crocodile-jawed monsters and jackal-headed gods.  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 [...]