In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The ancient Egyptians believed this allowed the person to use their senses in the afterlife. Then, the mummies were placed in a coffin and the coffin was put in a special room in the pyramid ...

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The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient Egypt. It appeared on amulets and in tombs. Egyptians believed it offered divine ...

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

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

But ancient Egyptian religion had countless centuries of recorded tradition and observance, so profound demonstrations of loyalty to the traditional gods were needed. The mud trays are now thought ...

Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian burial ... the promise, unique to Egyptian theology at that time, of an eternal afterlife of splendor. By contrast, “Greek ideas for the ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally divided into ... which typically promised rewards in the form of a better afterlife. New deities entered the minds of Greeks from areas such as Egypt and Syria, the ...