Abydos was a center for the cult of the god Osiris, a synthesis of different Egyptian beliefs about death, resurrection and kingship. The modern name comes from a Greek version of the ancient ...

An exploration of some of the oldest temples in the world, shedding light on the lives of ancient civilizations and their ...

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While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

As funding for arts nonprofits gets eliminated by a hideous regime, arts events become more precious than ever. Vibrant ...

In the Egyptian ... human condition. Ancient astrologers believed that the planet Mars had its exaltation in Capricorn. Thus, the deity personifying Mars is depicted as a war god standing atop ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was possibly built by King Tutankhamun's father and later added to by Ramesses II ...

The term minerval was linked to the ‘owl of Minerva’ (Minerva being the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom), and the bird eventually ... Originally a Christian emblem, the all-seeing eye has been used in ...

But more than a century later, a researcher has presented a new theory about the clay artifacts: They were part of a funerary ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.

“The Maya regularly buried buildings and rebuilt on top of them,” said co-author Andrew Scherer, a professor of anthropology, archaeology, and the ancient world at Brown and director of the Joukowsky ...

Famous for its iconic pyramid and temples, the ancient Maya city of Tikal is no ... the Tikal altar suggests it relates to the ‘Storm God’”, who was associated with rain, fertility, and ...