The Egyptian beetle, or Scarabaeus sacer, is a dung beetle that lives in a variety of environments, from the desert to the ...

Experts are carefully uncovering traces of the original paint and fragments of gold leaf that once adorned the 2,000-year-old ...

The decline of religious practice and the consequent shuffling of religion to the margins of life means that we are coming to ...

Astrology and religion are two ancient belief systems that have shaped humanity’s understanding of the world for millennia.

Archaeologists unearthed a series of mudbrick rooms filled with religious tributes, soldiers' personal effects, engraved ...

Egyptian temples were not only colorful, but also gleamed in glistening gold. Columns, gates and obelisks have been covered ...

Most religious mythologies reflect how various peoples experience the world. Mesopotamia had really bad weather and tribal ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

In a remarkable archaeological discovery, the Edfu Temple in Upper Egypt has revealed, for the first time, a new section of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

This is the third important Egyptian exhibition to be held in Australia this year, after the Egyptian Museum’s Ramses at the ...

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