The Egyptians considered the Ba, portrayed as a human-headed bird, to be the aspect of a person that imbued it with ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. A close-up of the stomach shows undigested bones, teeth, fur, flesh, and feathers—clues to what the kestrel ate.

The gods of old Egypt rule over us here, Bringing us wisdom and wonder and fear. They look like the things that The natural world shapes, Like jackals and beetles and lions. And apes! Babi watched ...