The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing ...

With a population over 15 million, Baladi dogs are everywhere—and often mistreated or killed. But that’s starting to change.

"The Egyptian people deposited the golden tongues on the tongue to restore vital functions to the dead and also so that the body remained intact in the afterlife. For the Egyptian ...

In our Torah portion this week, Vayeishev, we find ourselves immersed in the troubled family dynamic of Jacob and his sons.

From Sri Lanka’s Sinhalas to goddesses Durga and Ambika, the king of the jungle has held sway over religion and seats of ...

According to Almansa-Villatoro, Ra dies every night in the western horizon (which was why most Egyptian necropolises were ...

Many pet owners may treat their cats as royalty, but the ancient Egyptians went one step further: They looked to felines as symbols of divinity. To honor this history, the Shanghai Museum in China has ...

According to their recent study published in the Journal of Ancient History and Archeology, the book-sized artifact excavated in 2021 features 60 etched symbols, 39 of which differ from one another.

Haniwa were arranged on and around kofun ancient burial mounds of royalty or powerful families ... After the Meiji era through the end of World War II, they were turned to symbols of peace and ...

The characters are neither numerical nor cuneiform (which is the world’s earliest form of writing, predating Egyptian hieroglyphics ... to people beyond royalty and the socially elite.

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian temple hidden in a cliff face. The temple dates to around 2,100 years ago and was discovered at the site of Athribis, located about 125 miles (200 ...