A Jewish man stands at a lookout overlooking a road that was opened for two days during Passover celebrations, near the ...

In Egypt and across the Arab world, henna rituals—once sacred ceremonies imbued with spiritual meaning—have transformed into ...

British anthropologist Dr Paul Warner claims to have found the body of Jesus Christ and the Ark of the Covenant in a hidden double-cave under the Great Pyramid of Egypt ...

Controversial figures like Sayyid Qutb can undermine the legitimacy of the movement and distract from the genuine concerns of ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

curator of Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum, says in the IAA statement. “They were found in graves, in public ...

The scarab’s name comes from the Egyptian word "hprr", which means ... “Sometimes they bear symbols and messages that reflect religious beliefs or status.” The seals were worn as jewelry ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.

Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol of the Egyptian solar cult. Fourth dynasty rulers even typically adopted a suffix to their ...

The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists, is seen in Abydos ...