When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

The scholar who identified the message has now found several others, which show that the Luxor Obelisk still has something to ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

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

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth, the god of confusion and disorder. Isis was able to reassemble her husband’s dismembered body, bringing Osiris back to life ...

he reinstated polytheism as Egypt’s official religion. It makes sense, then, that his tomb would invoke the gods. Per Artnet, Tutankhamun’s coffins are meant to resemble Osiris, and Brown ...

has long believed that the Taposiris Magna could house the tomb of Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen. Cleopatra VII was deeply connected to the goddess Isis - wife of Osiris and mother of Horus ...

Myth 1: "The murderous Islamic State (Isis) is active in South Africa..." Myth 2: "...and has been recruiting citizens to fight in Iraq and Syria" Myth 3: "So far, three have died fighting for the ...

Some have their roots in stories and literature of the macabre. Others have emerged from mythology's darkest corners, and the deepest shadows of the underworld. These Victorian-styled and goth ...