But in Ancient Egypt around 2,000 B.C., lettuce was not a popular appetizer, it was an aphrodisiac, a phallic symbol that represented the celebrated food of the Egyptian god of fertility ...

From the images released, it appears that a few of the figurines depict "ba-birds" — creatures from Egyptian mythology that have wings and a human head. The "ba" in ancient Egypt represented ...

who go on to explain that zodiac signs are “otherwise absent from the known corpus of Egyptian petroglyphs.” Reviewing the symbol’s history, the researchers note that the appearance of a ...

Osiris: God of the underworld. Djed: An ancient Egyptian symbol meaning stability, which originated from the myth of Osiris. Atum: The creator god, and a central figure in the creation of the ...

a symbol of Egyptian pride and a historic source of friction among foreign powers. Linking the Mediterranean Sea in the north with the Red Sea in the south, the canal is still the fastest shipping ...

long-disputed question as to the identity of one of the animals which the old Egyptians selected as the symbol of their malevolent ... as intended by the Egyptian artists have been the jackal ...