The famous goddess of fertility in Egyptian mythology, she was granddaughter of Ra, wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus.

When they discovered a first-century A.D. Roman jug bearing the inscription “Londini ad fanum Isidis—London, next door to the Temple of Isis.” Best known as an Egyptian goddess, finding ...

associate curator of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum. "The piece makes you think a little bit." This Isis-Aphrodite is made out of terra-cotta coated with a white clay slip and decorated ...

When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century BCE, her new followers had to build sanctuaries appropriate to an Egyptian goddess. In the process of ... do not draw from contemporaneous ...

The team also documented two mummy funerary masks and several terracotta figurines, including some depicting the goddess Isis-Aphrodite. This deity is a form of the Egyptian goddess Isis combined ...

Ptolemaic-era statuette of Isis and Horus The earliest mention of the Egyptian goddess Isis occurs in the late 5th Dynasty (ca. 2465–2323 B.C.), in the funerary writings known as the Pyramid Texts.

His green skin symbolizes vegetation and rebirth, and his iconography often includes a crook and flail, which signified kingship in ancient Egypt. Isis was a central goddess in ancient Egyptian ...

This deity is a form of the Egyptian goddess Isis combined with the fertility aspects associated with the Greco-Roman goddess Aphrodite. In one of the hypogea, the team also found many multi ...

Egypt’s ambassador to the Swiss Confederation, Wael Gad, received, on Tuesday, an antique bronze statue of the goddess Isis, carrying the child Horus, dating back to the late period of the ancient ...