The ancients are known for their love of cats and ibises, but they took their love of greyhounds to the grave.

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

Ancient Egyptians revered animals, mummifying them as offerings to gods. Recently, scientists at the University of Manchester ...

The Sopranos (1999-2007) is a crime drama that follows Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), whose struggle to balance his dysfunctional family and a life of organized crime leads to a panic attack.

The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

Leprohon noted that the prince's name may have meant "Re is powerful." Re (also spelled Ra) was a sun god in ancient Egypt. The giant false door, which is made of pink granite, is about 14.8 feet ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ... of Re" (also spelled Ra), a sun god of Egypt. The name was inscribed ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to the faith prevalent in the modern world today. Human beings have respected ...

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. During the fight, Seth mutilated the left ...