The Judgement of Hunefer: Weighing the Heart
JUL 29 2013
Smarthistory reads the c. 1275 BCE Book of the Dead papyrus in the British Museum, the Egyptian weighing-of-the-heart scene that anticipates Michael's psychostasis.
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