What the Egyptian Book of the Dead Really Says
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What the Egyptian Book of the Dead Really Says

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202642 min
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead wasn't a book, and it wasn't cursed. It was a cheat sheet for surviving the afterlife exam from hell. Fail, and your heart gets eaten by a monster. This week, we open the real Book of the Dead, find out what The Mummy (1999) got wrong, and learn what Joseph Smith has to do with any of it. Ancient Egyptians believed that after death, you'd face a gauntlet of fire-breathing snakes, demon gatekeepers, and a final judgment in which your heart was weighed against a feather. To help them pass, they were buried with...

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You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. In January of 1915, Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, became encased in the ice in the Weddle Sea. Through determination, grit and savvy, Shackleton would lead his men through a brutal winter,

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then over hundreds of miles of Antarctic ice, followed by 800 miles across some of the roughest waters in the world. It is one of the most extraordinary and inspirational journeys in the history of exploration. Find this story and many others at the Explorers Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts,

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or at explorerspodcast.com. Friends, tests are hard. Trying to get facts to stick in your noggin with middling success is a feeling many of us might be familiar with. But it could be worse.

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