Overall, gods and goddesses played a central role in ancient Egyptian culture. Egyptians saw these deities as influential beings whose guidance affected daily life, and they regularly sought their ...

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

The 'elegant' face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

Meresamun is believed to have come from an elite Thebes family and was probably trained for her role by her mother.

When we think about Norse Mythology, it can be difficult to shake the image of an otherworldly Chris Hemsworth with bulging ...

Meresamun was a high-ranking priestess who had the ability to calm the gods with her singing voice, and a new reconstruction ...

From mid-November onwards, the Hong Kong Palace Museum will host the ‘Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums ...

To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

In the floodplain of Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, sun-baked and desolate, archaeologists have uncovered a city once built under the watchful eye of the cobra goddess, Wadjet.

Anomalies in glial cell density and corpus callosum diameter raise questions about their role in Einstein’s remarkable ...

For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D. candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different.