This startling discovery, hidden in a 2,200-year-old vase featuring the enigmatic god Bès, rewrites our understanding of ancient Egyptian rituals and beliefs. The vase, discovered in a tomb from ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

He believes that too many modern characteristics have been ascribed to the king, and in Kemp’s opinion, even the word religion is “mischievous” when applied to ancient Egypt. Like most ...

Child: Oh, wow! Abdul: After the birth of Jesus, most people became Christian, and forgot the ancient Egyptian religion that inspired the old temples and statues. Then, 600 years later ...

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