One of the snakes that has yet to be identified in the manuscript had four fangs and was associated with the ancient Egyptian deity Apophis, who took the form of a serpent. "As well as the ...

Our latest research, based on the venomous snakes described in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, suggests more than you might think. A much more diverse range of snakes than we’d imagined lived in ...

director of the Czech Institute of Egyptology and an expert on the ancient Egyptian language and texts. But, she explained, “in the case of Džehutiemhat, snakes from the Pyramid Texts play this ...