Legendary Afrofuturist bandleader, composer, and musician Sun Ra had an eye on the cosmos. Though he passed away in 1993, the ...

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was not only known for her powers over love and fertility, but also for her close ...

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

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

The fascination with figuring out the part that the Milky Way may have played in the culture and religion of ancient Egypt ...

Zahi Hawass, a former minister of antiquities in Egypt who is working with researchers in Jordan, said the inscription gives the name of Ramesses III and calls him "Sa-Re," which means "son of Re" ...

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 ...

Re (also spelled Ra) was a sun god in ancient Egypt. The giant false door, which is made of pink granite, is about 14.8 feet (4.5 meters) high and 3.8 feet (1.2 m) wide, the Egyptian Ministry of ...

Egyptian mythology and African culture. “Music is a language, and I’m saying things that can reach people,” Sun Ra said in a 1988 interview with The Birmingham News. “I’m not a prophet.

A newly unearthed settlement in Egypt’s north-western Nile Delta dates back around 3,400 years to the New Kingdom era and features a temple believed to have been dedicated to Pharaoh Ramesses II.

The complicated canonisation process involves a candidate being named a servant of God, their life being proved as a heroic virtue, the candidate being beatified and then finally being canonised ...