Workers package salted fish at a factory in Port Said, Egypt, on April 19, 2025. As dawn breaks on Orthodox Easter Monday, ...

an ancient Egyptian harvest festival celebrating the life-giving Nile flood and the rebirth of the land. Hieroglyphs from 2,700 BCE depict offerings of fish, lettuces, and onions to deities -- a ...

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Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus, a work written around 200 CE about well-read people philosophizing and enjoying good food and ...

During the springtime festival, ancient Egyptians would offer salted fish and other foods to their gods, to coincide with the spring equinox. During this period, which corresponds to the era of ...

"The goat-fish was found in a locality of el-Hosh ... However, astrology wasn’t adopted in ancient Egypt until the very end of the Ptolemaic Period in the first century BCE, when the signs ...

Ancient Egyptians regularly mummified crocodiles in ... However, the scientists also found intact fish baited to a bronze hook. Because the time frame between the croc’s last meal and its ...

Taxidermist Ray Murawski moved his hand along the back of a black bear rug he had laid out on a table in the back of his shop ...

Sham El-Nessim is an old Egyptian tradition which can be traced back to an ancient festival welcoming the new harvest. It is celebrated by eating salty fish called "Herring" and vegetables.