Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series on Ancient Civilizations with an in-depth look at how Ancient Egyptians perceived race and identity. This third episode in ...

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to ...

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

What is the origin of Easter eggs? Do they derive from authentic Christian traditions, or do they come from ancient pagan ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

What was the religion of ancient Egyptians, and what did it say about the afterlife? Ancient Egyptians worshipped many different gods and goddesses. The most important ones included Osiris (the ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history ... the title of pharaoh did not always pass from father ...

Worldwide, birthdays were first acknowledged in ancient Egypt in 3000 BC, where the Pharaoh reveled in his birthday in a huge ...

The holiday is usually a celebration of the liberation of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt. But for many Israelis, ...