The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was not only known for her powers over love and fertility, but also for her close ...

This plant, revered in ancient Egypt, is regaining attention today for its healing, calming, and spiritual properties backed by modern science.

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The local people built a temple on the island in honor of Dionysus. Naxos is also where Theseus took Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, the King of Crete, after killing the Minotaur. According to myth, ...

You might not think sound healing is your thing but devotees will tell ... used for thousands of years to restore balance to the body and mind. Temples and pyramids in Ancient Egypt were even built to ...

Ancient Egypt is well known to have been the cradle ... Excavations have also found that the temples and sanctuaries dedicated to Bastet are situated around vast ancient agricultural landscapes.

This was envisioned and constructed by Alexander as a thoroughly Greek city. The Ptolemies, however, allowed and supported the construction of traditional Egyptian temples and the veneration of their ...

This line faces the direction from which elite travelers would have approached the Luxor Temple via the Nile River ... a journal dedicated to ancient Egyptian studies.