Mahashivaratri is celebrated every year on the thirteenth night and fourteenth day of the month of Phalgun in the Hindu calendar which falls in February or March Unlike most Hindu festivals which are ...

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

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Egyptian mythology has fascinated people for centuries and its influence spreads far beyond textbooks and museum exhib ...

Hidden beneath the Temple of Osiris in Abydos, the Osirion is unlike any other Egyptian monument. With massive stone blocks, ...

Kathleen Martinez, who has been searching for the tomb of Cleopatra for nearly 20 years, has uncovered a statue believed to ...

Ceremonies took place along the canals, with Osiris being carried in a ceremonial ... who had constructed their own sanctuaries near the grand Egyptian temple, were integral to the city's economy ...

The temple was dedicated to the creator god ... a bit more than an hour and a half later than Orion.” In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth, the god of confusion and ...

Egypt’s recent discovery at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahri is of paramount ... Five horizontal lines at the bottom of the stela detail the offerings made to the god Osiris, Lord of Abydos, ...

Thought to have been founded during the reign of Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century B.C., the temple was dedicated to Osiris—a deity in the ancient Egyptian pantheon associated ...

A small statue discovered under a temple wall at the site of an ancient Egyptian city may depict Cleopatra ... it had a number of temples dedicated to Osiris and Isis, among other deities.