He, along with his sister Nut, was part of the second generation of the Ennead, or the group of nine gods in Heliopolis. Geb was usually shown in Egyptian art as lying at the feet of the air god ...

It is from Geb and Nut’s union that the famous ... in the “Book of the Dead.” Ma’at as a goddess is a famous image in ancient Egyptian art. Small bronze figures have been found across ...

Already ancient by the time Classical Greece flourished, the pyramids at Giza represent the most iconic ancient Egyptian structures to have survived ... The wings of the sky goddess, Nut, are ...

Yet Abraham and Sarah also decided to take matters into their own hands and “help God along” on the how by having a boy (Ishmael) through Sarah’s Egyptian slave, Hagar. While the union ...

Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive tomb of an unnamed pharaoh at the ancient necropolis of Anubis Mountain ...

In the Egyptian ... and Anukis, goddess of the annual Nile flood. Orion and Sothis also appear in the pronaos’ southernmost ceiling bay. Under a border depicting the sky goddess Nut swallowing ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic ...

Over two decades later, the aptly titled Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ... also recently restored at the museum’s new state-of-the-art conservation center in preparation for public display.

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that ancient Egyptian pyramids were reserved for the richest members of society – but an analysis of burials at a site called Tombos suggests low-status workers ...

First Royal Tomb Since King Tut Discovered Mohamed Abdel Badie—head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities—noted that the pharaoh’s tomb is much larger than ...