In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was not only known for her powers over love and fertility, but also for her close ...

An Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, Or Graur, discovered what is believed to be ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

The glorious river of stars, interwoven with dark dust, that makes up the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky may have ...

How well you know a historic road less famous than the Silk Road, or a piece of literature important but lesser-known — check ...

However, it was not until recently that travelers could see him and the more than 100,000 other ancient treasures held within the new menagerie of Egyptian history spanning five millennia. Covering an ...

The Roman Empire had two main populations: gods and humans. By its end, there was only one god left. How, and why, did he ...

Deinosuchus could then have spread across the continent to inhabit coastal marshes on both sides of the ancient inland sea, and along North America’s Atlantic coast. The new study’s revised ...

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

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to ...

Sham El-Nessim traces its origins to Shemu, an ancient Egyptian harvest festival celebrating the life-giving Nile flood and the rebirth of the land. Hieroglyphs from 2,700 BCE depict offerings of fish ...