Le Rituel de l'Embaumement de l'Egypte ancienne (Papyrus Boulaq III et Louvre 5.158). Chypre royal rites

royal rites

9 m long and 23 cm high and dates from the Macedonian period

he dies in exile

après l’Affaire (et ce jusqu’à aujourd’hui)

The Martin Bodmer Foundation's exhibition brings together papyri

Le Rituel de l'Embaumement de l'Egypte ancienne (Papyrus Boulaq III et Louvre 5.158). Chypre royal ritesThis work offers a translation of the "Ritual of Embalming" written on the "Papyrus Boulaq III" preserved in the Cairo Museum. The proposed restorations and corrections for the last pages of this papyrus come from the "Papyrus Louvre 5. 158". Discovered in a late Theban tomb around the middle of the 19th century, Papyrus Boulaq III has been dated to the years 50 55 AD, that is to say to the reign of Nero. 2. 32 m long and 28. 5 cm high, it is written