Podcaster Jay Anderson recounted entering a mysterious “trance” state while visiting the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet during ... "It felt like the statue was locked on to me.

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As a Barbican retrospective celebrates the artist’s extraordinary career, we caught up with his wife Karon to hear about her ...

He was associated with childbirth, music, and joy, and was notorious for playing playful tricks on the Egyptian goddess of the sky ... in the Tampa Museum of Art in 1984 after the museum acquired ...

Recent discoveries in Egypt uncover how daily life unfolded under Pharaoh Akhenaten, offering insight into a city lost for ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

The Seven Wonders of the World are often seen as the pinnacle of human architecture and the perfect form of engineering, that ...

Statues of the goddess Sekhmet (left)—730 of them in ... "She's probably the best Egyptian art historian of our time," says Betsy Bryan, an Egyptologist at Johns Hopkins University.

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

The trove includes many individual works of art, from the gilded ... similarities between Egyptian and Christian religious symbolism, for example in stories of the goddess Isis and her son Horus ...

Already ancient by the time Classical Greece flourished, the pyramids at Giza represent the most iconic ancient Egyptian structures to have survived ... The pillared hall is testament to Seti I’s ...