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"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 ...
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 ...
Discover 5 amazing animals that shaped and lived alongside ancient civilizations. Each played a unique role in shaping early societies.
Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, ...
If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...
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 ...
Archaeologists have discovered ancient tombs and Egypt’s first known temple school, the "House of Life," at Luxor’s Ramseum ...