seated statues of Pharaoh Ramses II. Covered in hieroglyphs and ornate carvings of people, birds and boats, this tan oddity really is a marvel, etched out to closely mirror the rock-cut temples of ...

A surprising discovery suggests the Moai statues on Easter Island share symbolic elements with the carvings on Pillar 43 of Göbekli Tepe. From M-shaped motifs and bird imagery to recurring “handbag” ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered the missing upper part of a "huge" statue depicting an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. A joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission ...

Although heavily influenced by Egyptian and Mesopotamian mythology, the classical Greek depiction of the sphinx consists of the body of a lion, the head of a woman, and the wings of a bird.

In Egypt, animals such as cats, dogs and birds associated with deities were routinely sacrificed and mummified for ancient Egyptian burials ... alabaster statue depicting a person, possibly ...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period from 1550–1070 B.C. They identified the ...