The rising and setting of the sun, the journey from life to death and beyond, nature and the changing of the seasons are all aspects of life that the Egyptians tried to explain through mythology. Everything, from plants and animals to planets had a story.

Find out about the mythical background of the papyrus plant; how the body of Osiris went to Lebanon and back before he became god of the underworld and how mankind sprang from tears of happiness before being slaughtered by Sekhmet.