In a gallery in Brooklyn, a 21-foot gilded papyrus has just been unrolled for the first time in centuries. Harmonia was there when it was made --- and she remembers the man it was made for. Today she takes us into the Hall of Two Truths, where every soul that ever lived in ancient Egypt faced the same extraordinary question: is your heart as light as a feather? The Egyptian Book of the Dead is not a book about death. It is one of humanity's oldest and most serious answers to the question of how to live --- and its answer, written in gold more than two thousand years ago, has never stopped being true.

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