Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

The temple was dedicated to the creator god Khnum, his family, and the goddess ... In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth, the god of confusion and disorder. Isis was ...

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A NASA astronaut currently on the International Space Station has recorded an incredible video of a vivid green aurora over Earth on Saturday, 5th April. Don Pettit has been at the space station since ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, and artifacts. The museum offers a wide array of exhibits spread across ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

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 ...

accompanied by painted images of the sister goddesses Isis and Nephthys. However, according to Dr. Josef Wegner, a professor of Egyptian archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the ...

Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served ... Painted scenes include depictions of the goddesses Isis and her sister Nephthys, as well as hieroglyphic texts on yellow bands.

Credit: Vania Teofilo / CC BY-SA 3.0 A mysterious Egyptian mummy known as “Bashiri” has captured ... a scene depicting the deceased lying on a bed, watched over by the goddesses Isis and Nephthys.

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...