"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

Delicately engraved on a gilt shrine, it’s a scene (above) of touching intimacy, a window into the lives of the ancient Egyptian monarchs ... jackal representing Anubis, the god of embalming.

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient Egypt. It appeared on amulets and in tombs. Egyptians believed it offered divine protection. The symbol is linked to Horus, a deity. Myth says his eye ...

Titled “Treasures Rediscovered: Stories of Crime and Stolen Artifacts,” the exhibition focuses not only on ancient artworks, but also on the “often complex dynamic” of illegal trafficking ...

The burial chamber — which was found in January and features many decorated rooms and mudbrick vaults — is the second major ...

Miriam Leonard's lecture at CSMVS explored Freud's fascination with antiquities, particularly Egyptian artifacts ... landscapes of Freud’s mind—where ancient Greece, Rome, and most prominently ...

CAIRO, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered a tomb dating back more than 4,000 years at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, the Ministry of Tourism and ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Ancient humans living about 15,000 years ago in present day Morocco may have ritualistically feasted on some of the world’s ...