A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

A deep dive into the Egyptian gods and goddesses (their characteristics, myths, and symbols) who held significant sway over the lives of ancient Egyptians.

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and Egyptian culture through hieroglyphs, gods, and amulets ...

They believed that certain celestial bodies were incarnations of their gods; for example, the rising sun symbolized Ra’s creation of the world, and its path reflected his daily rebirth.

Only six Egyptologists in the world are capable of reading these crypto-hieroglyphs, a form of secret writing discovered in the 1950s by Canon Étienne Drioton. While some Egyptians could read ...

But it would have meant little without another breakthrough. Since the word ‘sun’ in Coptic was ra, exactly as in Ancient Egyptian, Champollion realised that Coptic wasn’t just another language, ...

Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis (the goddess of healing and magic), Horus (a falcon-shaped god of war and the sky ...

Amun-Ra — a god associated with the sun — became particularly important during the New Kingdom and was associated with the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes).