The cult of the ancient Greek goddess Athena allowed certain Athenian women liberties that extended beyond the roles of ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the 'incredible' discovery of the tomb, located in the ancient ...

The Egyptian goddess Isis was one of the most revered deities of the ancient world, but her influence didn’t stop at Egypt’s borders. Over time, she became a central figure in Greco-Roman religion, ...

An archaeologist has studied broken statues of Queen Hatshepsut—one of the few women to rule as an Egyptian pharaoh, 4,000 years ago—and found that they were not attacked during the ...

An ancient Egyptian city has been uncovered by a team of British and Egyptian archaeologists. Archaeologists from the University of Manchester worked alongside a team from the University of Sadat ...

Why Were Ancient Statues of This Egyptian Female Pharaoh Destroyed? Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

The destruction of statues of the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut may not after all have been part of a campaign of retribution by her nephew and successor, King Thutmose III, archaeologists ...

Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the rediscovery of the ancient city of Imet in Egypt’s eastern Nile Delta, uncovering multi-storey dwellings, granaries ...

"An alphabetical guide to the deities of ancient Eastern Mediterranean civilizations. Discusses each deity's symbolism and imagery its connection to myths, rituals, and festivals described in texts"-- ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.

The ancient DNA of a man buried in a monumental Stone Age tomb in Ireland revealed he was born of incest 5,000 years ago. But this fact doesn't mean he was a "god-king" as previously claimed ...