June 2024 | UCLA Retirees Association (UCLARA): Book of the Dead and Ancient Egyptian Portraiture

Who isn’t fascinated by religious practices of the ancient Egyptians and their preparation for the afterlife. Egyptians rigorously prepared for eternity by developing a set of religious writings to help the deceased achieve a blessed afterlife in union with the solar god Re and the netherworld god Osiris (see above). Known as the Book of the Dead, these writings were recorded on papyrus scrolls, linen mummy wrappings, and other funerary objects. Come learn about the mysteries from Getty’s Book of the Dead manuscripts, which have never been on public view before.