As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

The 'elegant' face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

Image Wikimedia In Egyptian mythology, Horus, son of Osiris, lost his left eye during a battle with Seth for the throne of Egypt. Thoth, the god of wisdom, restored it, transforming this eye into a ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt.

Egyptian mythology gives us the origins for the Eye of Horus. The falcon-headed god Horus, the god of kingship and of the heavens, was the son of Osiris, the underworld deity.

A remarkable find from around 2900 BCE, the seal of King Seth-Peribsen, contains what may be the first complete sentence in Egyptian writing. The inscription on this seal talks about Seth-Peribsen ...

Ptolemaic Egyptian constellations at Dendera. Credit: wikimedia commons / Olaf Tausch / CC BY 3.0 Ancient Egyptian astrology used a zodiac system with 12 signs, much like the one used today. However, ...

Seth relief. Ancient Egyptian deities were often depicted in the form of animals. The goddess Isis was sometimes shown as a cow, and her son Horus, the god of kingship, took a fal ...

One of several threads running through the work is ancient Egyptian myth and the story of the god Osiris, who was believed to be the first mummy. He was killed by his brother, Seth.