Egyptologist, Akkadia Ford, believes ancient Egyptian religion offers a way of being environmentally attuned to nature and psychologically empowered. She has compiled a guidebook to the gods and ...

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.

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.

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, ...

The Egyptian beetle, or Scarabaeus sacer, is a dung beetle that lives in a variety of environments, from the desert to the ...

Other Egyptian deities were associated with the dead, such as Anubis, Horus, Hathor and Isis. However, it would also be inaccurate to call any of them a god of death.

Moon Knight's MCU arrival opens the door to an exploration of Egyptian gods and mythology. Here's how mythology ties into Moon Knight's world.

Animal cults flourished outside the established state temples for much of Egyptian history and animals played a critical role in Egypt’s spiritual life. The gods themselves sometimes took animal ...

It really has a timeless appeal, especially for kids — mummies, pyramids, hieroglyphs, curses, strange animal-headed gods — there's so much to explore.