Archaeologists discover secret behind why we keep cats as pets - Temples dedicated to Egyptian goddess Bastet have been found ...

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Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics ... script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis (the goddess of ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the last known inscription written in the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, inscribed on Hadrian’s Gate in AD 394, Philae, Egypt. Credit: Following Hadrian. CC BY 2.0/flickr ...

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.

Before archaeologists confirmed the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II last month, more than a century had passed since Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian laborers unearthed the tomb of ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a cheetah deity, Mafdet in Egyptian mythology was a goddess of safety from scorpions and snakes. She was also a symbol of the judicial process (the death penalty). Goddess Mafdet with the head of a ...

That would be Taweret, Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth and the best new minor character in the MCU. This is Taweret, as Steven eventually notes when he pulls himself together at the ...