New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

After the Great Pyramids of Giza were finished, the next pharaoh was interred in an unusual and distant structure.

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

ancient Egyptian inscription What's in a ... Upon Horemheb's death in 1307, Paramessu assumed the throne as Rameses ("Ra [the sun god] Has Fashioned Him"). Pharaohs of the day took five different ...

Shepseskaf's decision to build a mastaba instead of a pyramid has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, as it marked a ...

The sun and the moon, in the timeless stone we'd carve. Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a ...

An astronomical event may have marked the end of one of the most emblematic dynasties of ancient Egypt. A total solar eclipse ...