When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

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 ...

Pelletier discovered seven previously undocumented messages carved into the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris.

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 of Egypt’s oldest cities, Abydos was a center for the cult of the god Osiris, a synthesis of different Egyptian beliefs ... invoke the goddesses Isis and Nephthys, but the name of the ...

Secret hieroglyphs found in the Paris obelisk reveal how Pharaoh Ramses II used hidden messages to show divine power and ...

As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and ...