While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

Discover 5 amazing animals that shaped and lived alongside ancient civilizations. Each played a unique role in shaping early societies.

In the Egyptian ... goddess Nut swallowing the sun, the deities are shown riding in separate boats, with Orion in the lead looking back at Sothis. After conservation, the researchers found a ...

Cats in ancient Egypt were depicted in art and were considered sacred. Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of home, fertility, and childbirth, was often depicted as a lioness or a woman with the head of a ...

Podcaster Jay Anderson recounted entering a mysterious “trance” state while visiting the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet during the April 1, 2025, episode of the Project Unity podcast. On the same ...

Archaeologists also discovered a terracotta statue of the goddess Isis-Aphrodite. Religious syncretism of this kind was common in ancient Egypt and elsewhere in the Classical world. In this case, the ...

Today's the day: A solar eclipse will darken the skies in the northeastern US and Canada in the early hours of Saturday. Unlike the “Great American Eclipse” of 2024, however, this will not be a total ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been unearthed. Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive ...

Named for the Egyptian goddess of the Nile River, Anuket is the child of mother Lola and father Nile. She is Nile’s first daughter. Zoo visitors can now see her in the Pygmy Hippo nursing suite ...

The baby, a girl, was born Feb. 9 to mother Lola and father Nile. She has been named Anuket after the Egyptian goddess of the Nile river. After spending her first month of life behind the scenes ...

Inscriptions on both sides of the entrance to the tomb name the Egyptian goddesses Isis and Nephthys. The two were sisters and were often paired together as Isis represented birth and Nephthys death.

The team named the specimen after the cat-headed Egyptian goddess, Bastet, the symbol of protection, pleasure, and good health. Hesham Sallam, vertebrate paleontologist, and founder of MUVP ...