The "ancient [Egyptians] had no death cult ... wrote in their book "Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE" (Cornell University Press, 2004). The writing on the papyrus says this deity is ...

Three ancient Egyptians were buried in remarkable tombs with courtyards in a necropolis reserved for important people.

was dedicated to an Egyptian fertility god called Min. One of ancient Egypt’s earliest deities, Min was thought to be the embodiment of male sexual fertility. In iconography, he is often holding ...

Writing in a lesser organ, Matthew Parris wondered whether most ancient Greeks ‘really, sincerely, did believe in their ...

Yet ancient Egyptian priests would have ... Yet in this holy scroll, the Egyptians depict their Earth god Geb — a deity so important that the planet itself was referred to as the "House of ...

Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light on a bygone civilization. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

which also served as a gift to the gods. "Look at frankincense and myrrh — they're in the Christian story of Jesus and were gifts from the three wise men," Price said. "In ancient Egyptian ...

The idea of bodies from an ancient civilisation ... By using iconography associated with funerary gods – the male god Osiris and the female god Hathor – it's as if the embalmers were offering ...

Osiris: God of the underworld. Djed: An ancient Egyptian symbol meaning stability, which originated from the myth of Osiris. Atum: The creator god, and a central figure in the creation of the ...

For most ancient civilizations the problem is getting rid of the excess males before they destabilize the political systems. Wars are traditional, but human sacrifice seems like a natural ...

Inhabitants of the ancient ... selected pairs of male children for sacrificial rituals associated with the chultún. Per the authors, twins play an auspicious role in Maya mythology, most notably ...