A stunning discovery of mummified lion cubs and other animals in the Saqqara necropolis offers a glimpse into ancient ...

New research has overturned everything we thought we knew about cat domestication. Forget the theory that cats simply ...

In ancient Egypt, mass cult ritual sacrifices of cats gave rise to the furry felines becoming human companions, according to ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

For many people who celebrate it, Passover brings to mind memories of Seder meals with family and reading from the Haggadah, the script for the Seder ritual, which commemorates the biblical story of ...

Each column in the pronaos features ritual scenes on its lower part and ... the Arrows had in ancient Egypt. An image of a weapon-wielding war god representing the planet Mars stands atop the ...

Passover 2025 is officially here! Here's what you need to know about how to celebrate Pesach start and end dates to what food ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the ...

A pair of pedestrians recently stumbled across an ancient deadly weapon in a peaceful ... to a solar cult and suggest that the dagger had a ritual significance," the organization noted.

Now, they believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside Tutankhamun’s tomb. Dr Nicholas Brown, an Egyptologist at Yale University, claims that some of the treasures ...