It includes an Egyptian bronze statuette of Isis nursing Horus; and a falcon-shaped grain “mummy” symbolizing Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld.

The concept of celebrating motherhood is far from new. In ancient Egypt, particularly during the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 BCE) and into the Greco-Roman period, women, especially mothers, were highly ...

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'Isis' Is the Ancient Egyptian Word for 'Throne' The long history of Ancient Egypt is broken up into dynastic eras, beginning with Narmer's ascension to the throne following the unification of lower ...

Isis, goddess of healing and funeral rites, was one of the most important Egyptian deities and arguably one of the most prominent female deities in the ancient world. Isis was a magical healer who ...

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Lactating and nursing Madonna images have been part of Christian tradition for centuries. Some claim that these images originated as statues of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis and her son, Horus, ...

Two sculptures at the Barnes depict mothers nursing their children. In 1916, Renoir sculpted his wife, Aline Charigot Renoir, who had recently died. Mother and Child depicts his wife nursing their ...

The Isis Multimammia in the Capitol at Rome is black. Nor is it the goddesses alone who are shown to be of this sable hue.

ISIS on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack that killed five Egyptian soldiers in the country’s Sinai peninsula on Wednesday, the group said on its Telegram channel.