2A - Monday, April 9, 2007 -_. ^ N The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 6 TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: Arbor Anecdotes Before You Were Here Campus Characters FRIDAY: Explained History's back pages 413 E. Huron St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com KARL STAMPFL ALEXIS FLOYD Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 stampfl@michigandaily.com floyd@michigandaily.com CONTACT INFORMATION 6 Plenty of books in the Univer- sity Library system are old. You know the ones - they have tat- tered yellow pages almost ready to fall out of them their binding. But they're brand new com- pared with the pieces of the Book of the Dead in the Univer- sity Library. The library owns three pieces of an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. The book was written in Egypt about 3,000 years ago, making the fragments the oldest items in the University archives. Written on papyrus in Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, the book con- tains spells that were uttered to guide the recently deceased in their journey into the afterlife. Classical Studies Prof. Traia- nos Gagos, an archivist in the papyrology department, said the University Library owns three fragments of the Book of the Dead. The University pur- chased them - along with 400 other papyrus scrolls - from an antiquities dealer in October 1926, Gagos said. Gagos said the University tested the age of the scroll using carbon-dating and analyzed the writing style and use of color to more accurately predict the text's age. They concluded that the scroll was written around 1000 B.C. The pieces of the Book of the Dead in the University Library system depict people facing the god Horus, Gagos said. Horus, depicted as a man with the head of a falcon, was the god of the sky in ancient Egyptian mythol- ogy. The University's papyrus col- lection is sealed within a tem- perature-controlled room on the eighth floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library. The room, which is protected by a security system, can only be accessed by passing through two sets of locked doors. Although the elaborate secu- rity system seems like it is designed to protect mountains of ancient treasure, the sys- tem is necessary to ensure the safety and preservation of the artifacts, Gagos said. The tem- perature inside this chamber is maintained at 65 degrees and 45 percent humidity - roughly the same as the desert environ- ment in which the artifacts were found, he said. The Book of the Dead is cur- rently on loan to the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. One fragment of the scroll is on dis- play, and the other two are in storage, Gagos said. 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