The last missing pages from a supposedly ‘magical’ Book of the Dead from an Egyptian priest, Amenhotep, have been found after a century-long search – in a museum in Queensland.
British Museum Egyptologist Dr John Taylor said he was ‘floored’ by the discovery of the 100 fragments.
It’s the end of a worldwide search by archaeologists for the papyrus scroll – which supposedly contains spells to guide spirits into the afterlife.
Themes of beauty and death merge in the work of Sylvia Ji, whose skull-faced femme fatales are adorned with nightshade and black widows. Her macabre images are both provocative and alluring, a reflections of life’s binaries; beauty and decay, love and lust and danger and desire.
Chelsea Greene Lewyta is an illustrator and artist who deals in the stuff of nightmare fairy tales and tragedies. Her delicate, often sexually charged watercolors portray women whose brutalization and victimization (in short, trauma) is manifested in the natural world (in little creatures, deer, branches, woods) and in surreal distortions of their personal anatomies.
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