Dive into the world of ancient Egyptian religion through Seti I’s sarcophagus, featuring the full text of the Book of the Gates, intricate hieroglyphs, and symbols of the afterlife. Discover how these ...

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (RNS) — He was born and died in Alexandria, Egypt, then home to a large Greek community that began immigrating to Egypt in the 19th century. Writing primarily in Greek and little ...

The celebration marking the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum was not a fleeting cultural event, but a collective ritual that reconfigured the relationship between Egyptians and their symbolic ...

Queen Tiye of Egypt is regarded as the figure who paved the way for the world's major religions and was venerated as a ...

The Ouroboros—which symbolizes the cyclical nature of life and death and the divine essence that lives on forever—was first recorded in the Egyptian Book of the Netherworld. Alchemists then adopted ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,600-year-old stash of gold jewelry and artifacts at Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. The ...

Extracted from: Visible religion (Leiden) 4 (5) 1985-1986, pages 63-72. The ancient Egyptian writing system is at once pictorial, phonetic and symbolic. The number of hieroglyphic symbols are thought ...