As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ancient Civilizations continues with an episode on history ...

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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ancient Civilizations continues with an episode on history of Early Palestine. In this video, we explore The Early History of Palestine ...

Discover the sacred plants and flowers of ancient MENA civilizations and their deep connections to mythology, fertility, and ...

Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

South of Egypt, the Nile meanders through a vast desert landscape: the ancient region of Nubia ... Album This ram’s head, a symbol of Amun, is part of a necklace for a Nubian king, made in ...

Associate Professor and Director, Ancient Israel Program ... indicating the Horns of Ammon – the iconography thanks to an Egyptian Oracle which identified him as being the son of the god ...

The obverse shows the head of Alexander wearing a ram's horn, indicating the Horns of Ammon—the iconography thanks to an Egyptian Oracle ... the "pileus" cap was a symbol of freedom often ...

“I’m an Egyptologist and I was trained at Hopkins in their department of Near Eastern studies in Egyptian ... a part in the symbol’s translation, she is eager to see how ancient linguists ...