Earthquakes, looting and Nile floods obscured much of ruler Amenhotep III's temple until archaeologists ... the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is caked in dirt and ...

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

The remains of a 3,400-year-old village in Egypt dating to the New Kingdom have been uncovered. The village may have […] ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Built to honor Amon-Re (ancient Egypt's sun god) and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (who was believed to have descended from Amon-Re), the Temple of Hatshepsut stands out for its grand architecture ...

At the temple of Khnum in Esna, as at every Egyptian temple ... celestial bodies were incarnations of their gods; for example, the rising sun symbolized Ra’s creation of the world, and its ...

Amenhotep III (a granite head from the temple complex is his best extant ... a combination of Thebes' deity Amun and the northern Egyptian sun god Ra. According to an inscription describing ...

Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol ... which is called "The Sun Temple." Each pharaoh of the fifth dynasty built one of these ...