When one hears "Unusual Ancient Egyptian God" you rarely ever think "Snake With Legs" but this one is just that, and was ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Dr. Or Graur to uncover what he thinks may be the ancient Egyptian visual depiction of the Milky Way. Various Egyptian gods are either associated with, symbolize, or directly embody certain ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds.

From these dark and chaotic waters rises a pyramid-shaped mound called the Benben, upon which the creator god Atum appears. Ancient Egyptians believed the world began with Atum, and from him came ...

Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...

and said that it helps "unveil new secrets of this significant historical period in the history of ancient Egyptian civilization." In an even more significant achievement, an archaeologist from ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

A group of experts has found several images of an ancient Egyptian civilization in which there are representations of the Milky Way. They were found in coffins more than 5,000 years old ...