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

Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol of the Egyptian solar cult. Fourth dynasty rulers even typically adopted a suffix to their ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Amenhotep III's primary devotion, however, was to Amun-Ra, a combination of Thebes' deity Amun and the northern Egyptian sun god Ra. According to an inscription describing the pharaoh's conception ...

She is Sekhmet—"the one who is powerful"—the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is caked ... courts and halls built by the great Egyptian king Amenhotep III, who ...

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

But what many people don’t realise is that there’s a symbol printed on the back of every sun cream bottle. And ignoring it could mean the difference between getting a nice tan and burning your ...

"Sacramental Ideas and Usages in Ancient Egypt. I. Lustrations and the Heliopolitan Sun-God” (Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. xl. pp. 57–66, 86–91). "Sacramental ...

Their excavations unearthed several 2,500-year-old tombs with hundreds of treasures. A joint team of Egyptian and French archaeologists returned to the Ramesseum for their 34th year of work at the ...