In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Egyptian novelist Mohamed Samir Nada has won the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for The Prayer of Anxiety. Nada ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

We all face Red Seas in one form or another. But the good news is that just as God parted the waters for our forefathers when ...

Faith isn’t about finding all the answers – it’s about having shoulders wide enough, and spirits deep enough, to carry the ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

Passover, then, is both a celebration and a challenge. It is a celebration of the values by which civilized people are ...

Instead, he claimed they were used in a funeral ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife. In ancient Egyptian religion, Osiris was killed by his brother Seth and then ...

Horror games draw inspiration from classic movie monsters like vampires and mummies for terrifying enemies. Games like Forewarned and Resident Evil Village feature iconic creatures from horror cinema ...

But more than a century later, a researcher has presented a new theory about the clay artifacts: They were part of a funerary ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.