A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

Was the Garden of Eden based on a real place? And if so, where exactly might it have been? These questions have puzzled ...

A new study claims Eden lay on Egypt’s Giza Plateau and the Great Pyramid was the Tree of Life—Symbolism or hard evidence?

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

A rare Egyptian coffin image may show the Milky Way crossing the sky-goddess Nut, says a University of Portsmouth scientist.

From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.

They are supposed to be a link between heaven and earth and this thus has made them naturally divine In Asia the turtle represents universal order and is thought to have created the universe from ...

A new scientific study has revealed a direct symbolic connection between ancient Egyptian beliefs and the ... By mapping ancient symbols to celestial patterns, scholars are starting to get a ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction to scribbling prose romances a lowering hobby – why not take up making ...

An ideology s durability and strength is often misunderstood by many Its fiercest believers will always find little to complain but neutral observers can also be sometimes lulled into what is called t ...