"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

In the late 1800s, it wasn't unusual to see well-to-do Europeans climbing Egyptian pyramids in long ... The next year, they found over a dozen lion-headed statues and countless fragments of ...

This eerie chamber is one of several “megatombs,” as the archaeologists describe them, discovered last year at Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis that once served the nearby Egyptian capital of ...

Deep in a muddy pit, a dozen workers wrestle with Egypt's fearsome lion goddess ... to send a cast of the head to be placed on the torso next spring. An Egyptian foreman barks at the workers ...

Today held in the Egyptian ... with a lion's body. It measures 240 feet (73m) from paw to tail, rises 65 feet (20m) high and is about 62 feet (19m) wide across the haunches. The lower part of the ...

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

Burial chamber unearthed seven meters (23 feet) underground It was discovered at important ancient Egyptian city Abydos The pharaoh's name was obliterated by ancient tomb robbers March 27 (Reuters ...

God of War (2005) deserves a remake to align ... maybe moving closer to an Egyptian pantheon or trying to delve deeper into the distinctions between the Greeks and Romans. And a remake of the ...