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 ...

MIRANDA KRESTOVNIKOFF: According to ancient Egyptian myths, there was once, in the middle of eternal darkness, an endless ocean of lifeless water. Out of this ocean sprang the first mound of earth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The mummified remains were given back to the Egyptian state by UCC after more than a century spent in Ireland. The mummy and its ancient wooden ... of the gods and prayers that Hor would have ...