In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...
John Beyer explores the Egyptian temple museum at The Commons in Chino Hills for his latest Beyer's Byways. Having yet to travel to Egypt, I have always wanted to enter the Pharaohs' lands. To saunter ...
For nearly 50 years, the Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian monument, has famously made its home at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The temple is also an inspiration for musicians and ...
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a 4,500-year-old valley temple. The structure is part of a sun temple that ancient Egyptians built in honor of the sun god Ra, the Egyptian ...
Museo Egizio, in the center of the historic Italian city of Turin, is the world’s oldest museum dedicated entirely to ancient Egyptian history. The museum is celebrating its 200th birthday this year, ...
Are the cliffs of Athribis hiding a former sanctuary? In the small Egyptian village near Sohag, about 200 kilometers north of Luxor, researchers from the University of Tübingen, supported by the ...
Pyramids, ancient tombs painted with intricate motifs, and temples whose walls and columns are covered in hieroglyphics—it’s no wonder Egypt has fascinated writers, artists, filmmakers, and architects ...
When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century BCE, her new followers had to build sanctuaries appropriate to an Egyptian goddess. In the process of imagining a place for their Greek Isis ...
An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said on Friday. The temple of King ...
In a revelation, archaeologists have discovered that the Karnak Temple complex at Luxor, which is one of the most popular sites in Egypt, was constructed on an island created by the Nile River over ...
More than 2,000 decomposed ram skulls unearthed in a newly discovered warehouse in the temple of the ancient pharaoh Ramses II will help archeologists uncover more details about one of the oldest ...