Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

During a turbulent period in ancient Egypt, common people turned to animal mummies to petition the gods, inspiring the rise of a massive religious industry A shrew mummy (top), found at an animal ...

Ancient Egyptians killed a lot of animals and turned them into mummies, but the purpose for such sacrifices isn’t always clear. At the highest levels of Egyptian society, people were buried with their ...

Archaeologists have discovered a huge cache of Ancient Egyptian artefacts—including mummified lion cubs, cobras and crocodiles—at the famous Saqqara necropolis, according to the country's Ministry of ...

Many of the animal mummies may be nothing more than empty bundles of cloth and twigs, say researchers at the Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester. Their deduction comes after an ...

In ancient Egypt, so many people worshiped Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death, that the catacombs next to his sacred temple once held nearly 8 million mummified puppies and grown dogs, a new study ...

Scientists at the British Museum in London have used cutting-edge technology to see inside six ancient Egyptian animal coffins that have remained sealed for over two millennia. The study, which was ...

Millions of mummified ibis and birds of prey, sacrificed to the Egyptian gods Horus, Ra or Thoth, have been discovered in the necropolises of the Nile Valley. Such a quantity of mummified birds raises ...