The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Creating the Grand Egyptian Museum has become a seemingly Sisyphean task, with years of delays suggesting it would be ...

The alternative medicine system is thought to date back at least two thousand years. Here, gold shows up as swarna bhasma, a ...

Circumcision: Demonic Practice or Theological Covenant. Yigal Bin-Nun . The practice of foreskin removal likely originated in ...

Explore the history of ancient board games, from Senet to Tâb, and discover how they shaped culture, strategy, and leisure.

As my teaching and writing careers end in the next few weeks, I’m trying to suppress a feeling of quiet despair.

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When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...