a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis (the goddess of healing and magic), Horus (a falcon ...

Castlevania: Nocturne is a brilliant mix of real-world history woven into fantastical fiction. So how did they do it?

Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a mixture of order, harmony, and justice. As with many important concepts in the ...

The goddess Bastet was often associated with ... Priests and priestesses In ancient Egypt, priests and priestesses served the gods, not the people. Their primary role was to tend to the daily ...

Swathed in clouds of incense, a statue of the mother goddess ... the apogee of Egyptian military power and artistic skill circa 2500 B.C.—dotted the landscape. Shaven-headed priests, acting ...

The moon crescent amulet, or lunula, suggests the woman may be a priestess of the cult of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility. She had a symbolic connection to the moon ...

“There is also this idea that she could have been a priestess of Ceres, holding these plants and what appears to be a papyrus roll.” Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility and ...

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The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...