"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

Discover 5 amazing animals that shaped and lived alongside ancient civilizations. Each played a unique role in shaping early societies.

For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

MUMMIFICATION of sacred animals is a familiar practice in the annals of Ancient Egypt, especially in the later periods. A discovery of what is thought to be the earliest known example of the ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. An international team of archeologists have discovered a massive tomb that belonged to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs ...