What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

Mythology, whether Egyptian, Greek, or Roman mythology, has played a role in all our lives as stories, myths and legends that have influenced ...

Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, the ancient Egyptians did have a flood myth that is clearly analogous to those seen in ...

According to ancient Egyptian manuscripts, the eye makeup was believed to have a magical role, in which the gods Horus and Ra would protect wearers against several illnesses. Bacterial eye ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a recent Facebook post in April. The tomb belonged to a prince named "Userefre" or "Waser Ef Ra," the son of King Userkaf.

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to ...

An entire ancient Egyptian settlement from the New Kingdom ... with one of them depicting Ra-Horakhty, “Horus of the two horizons.” Ra-Horakhty is one of the many forms of the sun god Ra.

A statue of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (also known as Amenhotep IV) at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. AFP via Getty Images Meanwhile, the central street was impressively sloped to ...

The Eye of Horus engraved on a gold plate. This artifact was found in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Psusennes I, who ruled more than 3,000 years ago. . | Credit: DEA / S. VANNINI via ...