For three thousand years the shaman-priests of ancient Egypt put their best minds to work on the ultimate questions – why are we here in this life, and what happens to us after we die? Does our consciousness just cease with the death of the body, or does it, in some way, go on? These, for them, were not an abstract philosophical enquiries, or superstitious games of faith, but matters of rigorous investigation and experience using ancient spiritual technologies.

They found answers and set them out in majestic symbolism in their extraordinary religious art and architecture and in their mysterious and beautiful hieroglyphic texts. They believed it was possible to perfect the soul and in so doing to win the ultimate prize of immortality – the “life of millions of years” as they called it.

Santha Faiia’s unique photographs, the result of more than twenty years of work at the Giza necropolis and in the Valley of the Kings, give us privileged insight into the mystery and magic, the light and the beauty – and above all the spiritual truth – of this profound and mysterious ancient Egyptian quest.