I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C., well before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient ...

In July 2018, archaeologists unearthed a sprawling, ancient Egyptian “funeral home ... took a shocking 70 days replete with rites and prayers on each of them. After the internal organs ...

In Christian rites, incense symbolically marked the celestial world and carried prayers to God. Later, in Islamic Egypt, the ...

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

At an ancient Egyptian temple, rare traces of gold leaf ... The graffiti consisted of prayers addressed to Horus.

The unearthing of the long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years. Thutmose II's mummy was ...

Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two ...