On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Pelletier, an Egyptologist at Paris-Sorbonne University, claims to have found seven secret messages on the obelisk.

Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol of the Egyptian solar cult. Fourth dynasty rulers even typically adopted a suffix to their ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna ... At Esna, he was venerated as Khnum-Ra, signifying the addition of the sun god Ra to his divine power. Leitz suggests that the choice of red and yellow, both ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

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 ...

The God of War games reference several yet-unseen myths, which opens up the series to several interesting paths forward.

An exploration of some of the oldest temples in the world, shedding light on the lives of ancient civilizations and their ...

Amenhotep III's primary devotion, however, was to Amun-Ra, a combination of Thebes' deity Amun and the northern Egyptian sun god Ra. According to an inscription describing the pharaoh's conception ...

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Deep in a muddy pit, a dozen workers wrestle with Egypt's fearsome lion goddess ... the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is caked in dirt and bound by thick rope.