The famous goddess of fertility in Egyptian mythology, she was granddaughter of Ra, wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus.

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Credit: Vania Teofilo / CC BY-SA 3.0 A mysterious Egyptian mummy known as “Bashiri” has captured ... A chest ornament, made from rows of beads and shaped like a hawk’s head, reflects symbols often ...

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Solar symbols or an image of the reigning ... Smaller obelisks were usually placed in temples dedicated to Isis or Serapis, the Greco-Egyptian god. Today Rome has 13 Egyptian obelisks, far more ...

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and gold foil representations of religious symbols and deities such as Isis, Bastet, and Horus. (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook) The discovery is unusual because many ancient Egyptian ...

Horus' eye, or Wedjat, was a sign of protection and the most universally recognized Egyptian symbol. Isis' mother, the sky goddess Nut, was originally the patron deity of the night sky and was often ...

Persephone as Isis and Pluto as Sarapis (with Cerberus), Marble ... He sat on his throne with a scepter in hand and carried a vase on his head as a symbol of fertility, according to Egyptian tradition ...

Rather than the scavengers they are often perceived as now, vultures were viewed as symbols of power and insight in ancient Egypt. Isis, the queen of the gods, claimed the vulture as her sacred animal ...