The finding confirms that the pharaoh expected quite the pampered afterlife and hints at a potential musical-chairs situation ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a boy pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness.

Teotihuacan, Cahokia, and other metropolises featured striking religious centers, multifamily dwellings, and burial mounds, only to vanish. Archaeology is slowly revealing their splendid pasts.

For the first time in more than a decade, the ancient gods of Egypt have taken over New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has unveiled Divine Egypt, a new exhibition that brings together ...

“Divine Egypt,” a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is now open, offering a comprehensive look at Ancient Egypt’s principal deities. The exhibition delves into how these ...

It is unclear as to when the Book of the Dead was first produced. Nevertheless, the earliest known example of this work was found on the sarcophagus of Mentuhotep, a 13th dynasty queen. Due to the ...

Assyria, like Mesopotamia in general, has always excited the Western imagination. Assyrian beliefs about the spiritual world are no exception. The Assyrians believed that ghosts could return from the ...

As with the fate of the fearsome Egyptian god of the underworld Osiris himself, we have witnessed a brutal slaying and a resurrection. Only this time it's a movie (partially) about Osiris! Yet now, ...

Ancient Egypt is famous for its pyramids, hieroglyphics, and mysterious artifacts, but its gods and goddesses are equally fascinating. Studying these figures helps us better understand the Egyptians’ ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Egyptians began worshipping Hathor, a powerful goddess associated with love, fertility, and motherhood. Often depicted with a cow’s head or as a woman adorned with cow ...