In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Moon Knight is one of the most unique characters in all of Marvel Comics. The chosen champion of the Egyptian moon god ...

At least six-and-a-half of The Ten Commandments are broken in the movie The Ten Commandments, the Cecil B. DeMille/Charlton ...

Even if only a coincidence, it is nevertheless deeply symbolic that the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, arrived ...

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was murdered by his brother ... featuring 10 stars painted above the deities. “On the night before the Egyptian New Year festival, Orion rises in the tenth hour ...

Instead, he claimed they were used in a funeral ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife. In ancient Egyptian religion, Osiris was killed by his brother Seth and then ...

It has been long believed to be the final resting place of Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld. Historians consider Abydos a royal cemetery where many kings were laid to rest. Wegner’s ...

But more than a century later, a researcher has presented a new theory about the clay artifacts: They were part of a funerary ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.