Egyptian gods are a big part of understanding ancient Egyptian ... Well, with all the embalming, over-the-top tombs, and freaky, half-animal representations I suppose it makes sense that metal ...

Egyptian Animals and Gods Broadcast Sun 19 Mar 2006 at 4:45am Sunday 19 Mar 2006 at 4:45am Sun 19 Mar 2006 at 4:45am Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down ...

They later transferred these animals and their characteristics to the divine realm, so by the dawn of dynastic Egypt in 3100 B.C., the gods were taking animal forms. Ancient Egyptian belief ...

Egyptian Animals Were Mummified Same Way as Humans. Animals were viewed not only as pets, but as incarnations of gods—and were buried by the millions to honor ancient Egypt's deities.

Photo of one of the animal coffins surmounted by a human-headed part-eel, part-cobra hybrid wearing a double crown, associated with the ancient Egyptian god Atum.

Egyptian mythology has a lot of gods. Some of them have loomed large in pop culture and the public imagination: Ra, Apophis, Anubis, Isis, Bast, Osiris, etc. Some are far more obscure. But that in ...

While Osiris is often considered the Egyptian god of the underworld or god of the dead, experts told Live Science it's not that simple. It would be a mistake to call Osiris a god of death, Andrea ...

An animal coffin with a human-headed part-eel, part-cobra figure wearing a double crown. The figure is associated with Atum, an ancient Egyptian god of pre-existence and post-existence.

In Rick Riordan's follow-up to the "Percy Jackson" series for young adult Greek gods and... In Rick Riordan's follow-up to ...