The Egyptian blue lotus flower, revered in ancient Egyptian and Ayurvedic traditions, is newly trending for its calming ...

In ancient India, it was thought that diamonds were created when bolts of lightning struck rocks. There was a saying: ‘He who ...

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how they conceived of the universe through the astronomical objects and ...

The End of the Humanity According to Ancient Greek Mythology. Credit: Stefans02 / Flickr / CC BY-2.0 According to ancient Greek mythology, there are five ages known as “The Ages of Man,” during which ...

The mud trays are now thought to be part of a wider funerary ritual, which both invoked the god Osiris and permitted the ...

But more than a century later, a researcher has presented a new theory about the clay artifacts: They were part of a funerary ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.

The artifacts in focus are a set ... But ancient Egyptian religion had countless centuries of recorded tradition and observance, so profound demonstrations of loyalty to the traditional gods ...

“The Maya regularly buried buildings and rebuilt on top of them,” said co-author Andrew Scherer, a professor of anthropology, archaeology, and the ancient world at Brown and director of the Joukowsky ...

Famous for its iconic pyramid and temples, the ancient Maya city of Tikal is no ... the Tikal altar suggests it relates to the ‘Storm God’”, who was associated with rain, fertility, and ...

Omar Chakil's stone furniture collection was designed to reference ancient Egyptian gods His 17-piece Transcendence ... which was a symbol of rebirth, resurrection and transformation for the ...

The scarab, shaped like a dung beetle, was regarded in ancient Egypt as a symbol of creation, renewal, and the divine. It was believed to be a representation of the Creator God and had a powerful ...