What did the ancient Egyptians truly believe awaited them after death? Journey into the sacred rituals of the 19th Dynasty, ...

About 3,500 years ago, did the Egyptian woman named Webennesre feel comforted at all being accompanied in death by a papyrus now on display at the Getty Villa exhibition “The Egyptian Book of the Dead ...

Here's why ancient Egyptians buried their dead with certain grave goods, such as the "Book of the Dead," gold tongues and scarabs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

They believed that when an individual dies, the soul remains to journey on into the afterlife, which is where all possessions lost on earth are restored. Therefore, they preserve their bodies even in ...

Newly excavated Egyptian tombs dating back roughly 4,000 years are yielding a cache of rare relics that is reshaping how I ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

Before the ancient Egyptians purposefully mummified their dead, the desert did it for them naturally. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

An astrophysicist has simulated the appearance of our galaxy as it would have been seen from Egypt 4,000 years ago. Reading time 3 minutes The massive galaxy that houses our star system, along with ...

With a population over 15 million, Baladi dogs are everywhere—and often mistreated or killed. But that’s starting to change. The Egyptian god Anubis is often shown with the head of a dog in tomb ...