The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient ... the afterlife. Its use both in burial practice and in artwork speaks to the strong connection to health, power, and favor with the gods in Egyptian ...

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

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

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

But ancient Egyptian religion had countless ... that they are crucial components of his burial. They confirm Tutankhamun as both renewed in death through Osiris, and the king who restored order to ...

In ancient Egypt ... on their journey to the afterlife. Once mummified, the body was placed in a sarcophagus or coffin and sealed within a tomb. For pharaohs, the burial process was even more ...

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 ...

But ancient Egyptian ... crucial components of his burial. They confirm Tutankhamun as both renewed in death through Osiris, and the king who restored order to Egypt. AllAfrica publishes around ...