Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures ... Ancient Egyptians worshipped many different gods and goddesses. The most important ones included ...

A stunning discovery of mummified lion cubs and other animals in the Saqqara necropolis offers a glimpse into ancient ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

In the Egyptian ... worshipped their gods and how they conceived of the universe through the astronomical objects and astrological signs that they used to adorn the ceiling. Images of various ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

From floating shrines and striking synagogues to golden monuments and sprawling sacrificial sites, these are the most ...

Cats certainly traveled long distances: DNA from Egyptian ... gods in cats. Cats were sometimes even mummified lovingly next to their deceased owners, but they were also sacrificed in large numbers ...

Pagan Saxons worshipped a spring goddess named Eostre. They baked bread during springtime festivals to celebrate new life and ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in radiology, forensics, and anatomy began to probe the secrets that the winged goddess ... gods and had his soldiers deface images ...