Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...

Those who know him best say Ahmed Hassanein isn’t close to reaching his full potential, even as he stands to possibly make ...

Kabbalah intertwines with Greek philosophy, from Neoplatonism to Pythagorean symbols, shaping Jewish mystical thought.

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Pelletier discovered seven previously undocumented messages carved into the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris.

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

A medical team at the Sayed Galal University Hospital in Bab al-Shaaria, affiliated with Al-Azhar University, succeeded in ...

From elaborate Italian frescoes to a twin mattress-sized cake, here's what our editors saw and loved in Milan.

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

Miraculous births of figures like Jesus, Horus, Heracles, and Alexander the Great are found in ancient myths across different ...

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg noted this, the story of how Jewish slaves in Egypt became the Jewish People in Israel was the first time in recorded history that the fate of a people was altered. The world ...

But more than a century later, a researcher has presented a new theory about the clay artifacts: They were part of a funerary ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.