The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

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

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

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

Scientists used X-rays and CT scans to explore a mummified crocodile, uncovering incredible details about its last meal, and ...

Pelletier, an Egyptologist at Paris-Sorbonne University, claims to have found seven secret messages on the obelisk.

Even if only a coincidence, it is nevertheless deeply symbolic that the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, arrived ...

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 ...

As Easter approaches and Passover fades away this week, I offer to you, dear readers, and your families, a two-word prayer to ...

Ancient Egyptians regularly mummified crocodiles in elaborate ceremonies in dedication to their crocodile god Sobek. A study of one of these crocodiles reveals details about the animal’s death ...

At least six-and-a-half of The Ten Commandments are broken in the movie The Ten Commandments, the Cecil B. DeMille/Charlton ...