Cats held a revered place in ancient Egyptian society, symbolizing protection, grace, and divine connection. These sacred ...

Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look ...

The joint Spanish-Egyptian mission found the gold tongues after reaching the bottom of a burial shaft that led to three chambers containing dozens of mummies. The tombs and their contents have ...

Experts believe these ornate tongues were intended to allow the dead to speak with the god of the underworld, Osiris. Gold nails, however, are rarely found in Egyptian archaeological digs.

Archaeologists have uncovered several ancient Egyptian tombs containing dozens ... of the deceased to communicate with Osiris—the god of the underworld—and to help them cross into the afterlife.

Meaow! On the roaring success of our Which cat are you? personality quiz, we are back with our Ancient Egypt edition! Are you going to be a Bastet or a Sekhmet? Cats were considered magical and good ...

And few cultures have been so consistently and profoundly motivated to capture the human likeness in all its detail as that of Ancient Egypt. From the earliest days of Predynastic Egypt, so far in the ...

Museums are great levelers. Inside their walls, narratives, portraits, icons and altarpieces become paintings; crucifixes, totems and temple gods become sculptures; sacred objects, out of context ...

A large body of his works was deeply influenced by Egyptian heritage, particularly the ambience of Upper Egypt. "The most striking thing about Ehab's work is that he doesn't always directly depict ...

A few decades before 1200 BCE God helped Prophets Moses and Aaron take the Hebrews out of Egypt. A thousand years later the Maccabees did it; all by themselves. How did this great ongoing ...