Walking into the first of 23 galleries, visitors encounter a statuette of an Egyptian god nursing her ... been employed by different religions as a symbol of faith. Rather than presenting its ...

A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology proposes that a set of seemingly ... Osiris is usually shown as a mummified king, with green or black skin to represent the fertility ...

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

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

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

The move sparked concern in some states with lower fertility levels and drew praise from pronatalists who see it as sign the government is taking their cause seriously. Meanwhile Elon Musk ...

“Possibly the symbols and representations of characters on the bracelets are related to pre-Hispanic cosmogony regarding creation and fertility,” Cuauhtemoc Reyes Alvarez, INAH ...

Eggs? Another fertility symbol. Long before Jesus was nailed to a Roman cross, ancient Persians were dyeing eggs to celebrate the new life of spring. Eggs symbolised birth, renewal, the cycle of life.