Illustration of Osiris and his sister and wife Isis, gods from ancient Egypt. Isis was a caring, maternal goddess who had love for all. She was said to protect children and magically heal the sick.

The 3,900-year-old tomb of priestess Idy is revealing new insights into women’s roles in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.

By Cleopatra's time a cult around the goddess Isis had been spreading across ... Using Strabo's ancient descriptions of Egypt, Martinez sketched a map of candidate burial sites, zeroing in on ...

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The ancient Egyptians had many gods and goddesses ... Anubis has the head of a jackal. Isis was an important goddess with many roles. She helped the dead enter the afterlife, was the divine ...

There might not be a better way to experience the Nile than by cruise, and explorers will feel like they've been sent back in ...

She was the goddess of fertility and of the fruits ... the personification of the divine power of the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, Isis was worshipped continuously for thousands of years, before ...

Dark feminine energy isn't just any micro-trend, it's been around since ancient Egypt. We unpack the feminist meaning behind ...

An international team of archaeologists led by Professor Jochem Kahl from Freie Universität Berlin has made an incredible ...

In March 2022, a team of archaeologists was excavating a newly discovered temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis at Berenike ... by taxes on trade with ancient India. Historian William Dalrymple ...

Catherine Blakeney, chief American archeologist with the mission, said they found two copper mirrors, one with a lotus-shaped ...

If you've ever thought that people nowadays are a bit obsessed with cats, allow me to (re)introduce you to ancient Egyptian ... Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously ...