The ships, named after Egyptian deities (Hathor, the goddess of love, and Sobek, the crocodile god), were welcomed with a ceremony that managed to balance corporate pomp with a nod to history.

The temple is built into the living rock, dedicated to Hathor, the goddess ... the powerful Canaanite god. “For me, it’s worth all the gold in Egypt,” the Israeli Egyptologist Orly ...

Around 1353 BC the Pharaoh Akhenaten tried to change the way gods were worshipped in Egypt. Instead of having multiple gods and goddesses, each with different roles, he placed one god, the god ...