Located in the northern Sinai Desert, the site is shedding new light on defensive structures built to protect Egypt's eastern borders ...

Archaeologists uncover an ancient Egyptian fortress in Sinai with 500 trees, deep moats, paved roads, and housing—dating back over 2,000 years to the Ptolemaic period.

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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 ...

Easily recognizable as the elephantdeity riding a mouse Ganesha is arguably he most popular Hindu God and one of the commonest mnemonics for anything associated with Hinduism The son of Shiva and Parv ...

William Morris wrote with appalling fluency. Composing verse on trains or while sat at the loom, he could turn out ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The ...