New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

Pharaoh Shepsekaf, the reigning ruler of the fourth Egyptian dynasty ... Egyptians venerated the sun; for instance, the god who took the form of a falcon, Horus, was typically depicted with ...