The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038, and Cristes-messe, in 1131. In Dutch it is Kerstmis, in Latin Dies Natalis, whence comes the ...

We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

Amenhotep III ruled a golden age of Egyptian gods and glory. But his son, Akhenaten, betrayed it all. This is the story of a religious revolution that plunged Egypt into chaos—the banning of the old ...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being reassembled in real time. The cedarwood boat, one of two that ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sung would feature on Australian ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Welcome to the world of the Egyptian gods. This is where the famous gods of Ancient Egypt, from Anubis to Thoth, live their lives freely. How freely, you ask? Bastet appears out of nowhere, singing ...

In his ninth year, Pharaoh Akhenaten crossed a line that shook Egypt: he banned all gods except the sun, ordered their ...

The pantheon of Egyptian gods is filled with mighty human-animal hybrid deities such as Horus, the falcon-headed god of kingship; Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification; and the warrior ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

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