In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was not only known for her powers over love and fertility, but also for her close ...

A tomb discovered within an elite necropolis in Pompeii has been identified as the final resting place of an ancient priestess who may have served the fertility goddess Ceres. According to ...

She's celebrated as a goddess of love, fertility, drunkenness, music and dancing, female sexuality, motherhood and happiness," Missouri State University Egyptologist Julia Troche said.

A mysterious inscription on an ancient monument dedicated to a "mother goddess" has been deciphered thanks to a researcher's "fortuitous" discovery.

Ancient Egyptian women who struggled with fertility made altars for Hathor, left her offerings, and prayed to her for support in childbearing. I saved the temple erected in her honor for last.

Mysterious 2,100-year-old gate believed to hide ancient Egyptian god of fertility’s secret temple is unearthed The entrance opens up to a previously unknown chamber, which archaeologists believe ...

Excavation efforts at the site of an ancient thermal spa in Tuscany have unearthed near-perfectly preserved ancient relics such as objects linked to pregnancy and fertility as well as coins dating ...

The gateway - on the western side of the Athribis Temple near Sohag, Egypt - spans 167 feet (51 meters) in width and originally stood up to 60 feet (18 meters) tall.

Some of the items in the exhibit date back nearly 5,000 years - images of ancient fertility gods and goddesses that were seen as precursors to the Greeks' creation of Aphrodite.

Rare items believed to have been used as votive offerings to the gods — including so-called fertility statuettes shaped like a phallus, a womb and a pair of breasts — have been dug out from ...