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Meet 25 of the Ancient Egyptians’ Most Significant Gods and Goddesses, From the Falcon-Headed Horus to the Sky Deity Hathor
"Divine Egypt," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features nearly 250 artifacts representing the rich ...
The museum opens Nov. 4 near the Giza Pyramids, exhibiting more than 100,000 artifacts, including Tutankhamun’s full treasure ...
Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...
The study of celestial objects ran throughout ancient Egyptian culture. Religious events were fixed by the movements of the sun and moon, star charts were carved into the lids of tombs, and the ...
A relief panel carved in Afyon marble featuring the Egyptian sphinx-god Tutu, discovered in the Roman bathhouse at Sagalassos, Turkey. (Hale Pak/AA via Arkeonews) ...
In order to tell time once the sun set, the ancient Egyptians identified 36 groups of stars in the night sky and used their positions to gauge the hour. Known as decans, each one was associated with ...
Over 3,000 years ago, artists adorned the walls of the ThebanNecropolis with formal paintings and portraits. But they didn’t always get it right first time. Researchers analyzing works in two tombs ...
Sasha Grishin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Archaeologists say they've discovered an ancient, long-submerged Mediterranean port, but for the head of the mission, the ...
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