Nearly 200 years on from first being erected in Place de la Concorde, a French egyptologist has found new messages in the ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...

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

Abydos was a center for the cult of the god Osiris, a synthesis of different Egyptian beliefs about death, resurrection and kingship. The modern name comes from a Greek version of the ancient ...

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how they conceived of the universe through the astronomical objects and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was possibly built by King Tutankhamun's father and later added to by Ramesses II ...

Apollo in the temple of Zeus. Credit: wikimedia commons / Egisto Sani cc by 2.0 One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? What ...

MUMMIFICATION of sacred animals is a familiar practice in the annals of Ancient Egypt, especially in the later periods. A discovery of what is thought to be the earliest known example of the ...

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.

Famous for its iconic pyramid and temples, the ancient Maya city of Tikal is no ... the Tikal altar suggests it relates to the ‘Storm God’”, who was associated with rain, fertility, and ...

“The Maya regularly buried buildings and rebuilt on top of them,” said co-author Andrew Scherer, a professor of anthropology, archaeology, and the ancient world at Brown and director of the Joukowsky ...