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 ...

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.