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'Door to Afterlife' Found in Egypt One of Many Worldwide
Carl Franzen Contributor
AOL News
(March 29) -- Forget Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." Today, archaeologists in Egypt proudly announced their discovery of a 3,500-year-old "Door to the Afterlife."
Standing nearly 6 feet tall, the false door is made up of a solid slab of reddish granite intricately engraved with numerous hieroglyphics and carved to create the illusion of a series of concentric door frames stretching off into an infinite horizon.
The Egyptian antiquities authority announced Monday that this nearly 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife has been unearthed.
Fox News noted that such doorways are "found in nearly all ancient Egyptian tombs" and were installed "to take the spirits of the dead to and from the afterworld." …


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