Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

For the Nitzan family, it was a moment of unexpected history ... As ancient Egyptian culture spread, so did the scarab. Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans adopted the beetle-shaped amulet ...

Evan Halleck says pursuing this project is “the most creatively alive” he’s felt since moving to L.A. 12 years ago to start ...

Inside, Youssef and his colleagues found signs that the people buried here had wealth and privilege: gilded masks, a finely carved falcon and a painted scarab beetle rolling the sun across the sky.

The Scarab was named after the sacred Egyptian dung beetle and represents rebirth, resurrection, and renewal. With its bulbous, puffy appearance, the vehicle looked very much like a beetle.

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

highlighting a unique connection to ancient history. Egyptian blue, the world's oldest known synthetic pigment, was first used more than 5,000 years ago, according to the Smithsonian. Ancient ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.

Located in the northern Sinai Desert, the site is shedding new light on defensive structures built to protect Egypt's eastern borders ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift" ...