As I entered the Masonic Temple in Center City and walked between two sphinx statues guarding the entryway staircase, and ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Archeological work at Ramses II's mortuary, known as the Ramesseum, has uncovered a school, stone workshops, and storage ...

The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient Egypt. It appeared on amulets and in tombs. Egyptians believed it offered divine ...

While the Masonic Temple in Center City is rich with symbolism — from the two sphinx statues flanking the entryway staircase ...

Viking® ( has announced its newest ship for the Nile River—the 82-guest Viking Amun—was “floated out,” marking a major ...

Luxor is world-renowned for its ancient wonders – the towering temples of Karnak and Hatshepsut, the royal tombs in the ...

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

Nearly two dozen Egyptian men and boys did the digging ... Myrtle Broome and Amice Calverley helped preserve the art of a historic temple. Construction began on the Temple of Seti I, now known ...

The temple (an artist's conception ... "She's probably the best Egyptian art historian of our time," says Betsy Bryan, an Egyptologist at Johns Hopkins University. Now, along with Stadelmann ...

To save the temples, the Egyptian Government has recently appropriated some $60,000. But that, says Director General of Antiquities Etienne Drioton, is nowhere near enough. Unless many more ...