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

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an archaeological site named for a mound roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, or ...

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 ...

The findings, which were published in the journal “Antiquity,” could reshape our understanding of Egyptian civilization ... of solely worshipping the sun god Aten — the pharaoh’s ...

"The Sequence of the Episodes in the Egyptian Daily Temple Liturgy” (Journal of the ... Lustrations and the Heliopolitan Sun-God” (Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol.

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was insignificant and subject to oppression by the Romans?

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 ...

Their tangle with Egypt’s Ramses the Great ... of the Hittite universe: the Great Temple, dedicated to the storm god Tarhunna and his partner, the sun goddess of Arinna. Foundations surrounding ...

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in ... of a central figure of the Greco-Roman sun god Helios, surrounded by a circle of ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to the faith prevalent in the modern world today. Human beings have respected ...

These texts, previously unnoticed, reveal new information about the reign of Ramesses II, the pharaoh who commissioned this monument at the entrance to the temple of Luxor in the ... thus linking ...