How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum.

Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many individuals buried together were not immediate family, but second- or third ...

Framed through the increasingly popular lens of Greek vs. Norse vs. Egyptian Gods, this report provides an exhaustive, expert ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. THE PROTECTIVE ...

Genii of the Minoan civilization were mythological creatures inspired by Egyptian deities such as Taweret. Credit: Hubert Mara Wikimedia Commons CC BY -SA 4.0 Minoan Genii are mythological creatures ...

Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt represented by Athena and Isis, respectively, is a late 19th-century symbolist Art Nouveau mural by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt symbolizing the relation of the two ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

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NEW YORK — One of New York City’s most prominent art museums this month unveiled its biggest ancient Egypt exhibition in more than a decade, focusing on gods and deities from the period. “Divine Egypt ...

The carvings were found on a mountaintop in the Teotihuacan Valley in Mexico. Getty Images/iStock Photo On the southern edge of the Teotihuacan Valley in Mexico, the peak of Cerro Patlachique towers ...