A recent study on ancient Egyptian imagery suggests rare drawings of the sky goddess Nut represent the earliest visualization ...

Researchers have uncovered the earliest-known depiction of the Milky Way in coffin art depicting the Egyptian sky goddess Nut ...

Zahi Hawass, a former minister of antiquities in Egypt who is working with researchers in Jordan, said the inscription gives ...

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat Wye, was one of the most significant. Sometimes seen as a distinctive ...

said the inscription gives the name of Ramesses III and calls him "Sa-Re," which means "son of Re" (also spelled Ra), a sun god of Egypt. The name was inscribed when Ramesses III led an army that ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between ... Ra-Horakhty is one of the many forms of the sun god Ra. In this iteration, he has the falcon head of Horus, another god of the sun ...

The Sun Ra Festival would honor the life, music and legacy of Birmingham's legendary jazz composer, bandleader and mythical ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological evidence indicates their presence among human communities from approximately ...