From the images released, it appears that a few of the figurines depict "ba-birds" — creatures from Egyptian mythology that have wings and a human head. The "ba" in ancient Egypt represented ...

a lamp and a painted statuette of the Ba-bird: a part-bird, part-human figurine depicting the "soul of the deceased," the Egyptian ministry explained. The room was also home to several painted and ...

Some of the vases still contained food, while two statuettes depicted Ba, the Egyptian bird god who represented an aspect of the soul. “We know that Aswan was important in the late Pharaonic and ...

An ancient Egyptian painting is so detailed, researchers can determine which species of birds were featured in it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Among the riddles they tried to solve was why two unidentified birds had triangular tail markings when no Egyptian bird known today has them. For many millenniums, great flocks of birds have ...