While most tourists stick to the Nile valley, Stanley Stewart heads west into a land of oases, temples, monks and miracles ...

Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Ancient Game Night, “Ouroboros” and “¡A Bailar!” ...

Oh!'s history, the Divine attribute has been mostly vacant, and very few decks have been built with these powerful cards in mind. The Divine attribute was originally created with the "Egyptian God ...

Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. God told Moses that he had heard the suffering cries of the ...

This dog sculpture does not have a name attached to its collar, but The Met notes that some common Egyptian dog names translate to Blackie, Son of the Moon and Good-for-Nothing. The breed of this ...

They are sometimes linked to snake gods. In Nepal, when people stopped worshipping the snake gods, the rains stopped and the rivers refused to flow. Closely related to them is the third category ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

Egyptologists think that these riotous rituals were fueled by wine that had been infused with psychedelic blue lotus.

However, a serpent, or snake, tempted Eve and convinced her to eat the fruit. He told her that if she did, the fruit would open her eyes to knowledge, and she would become like God. Biblical scholars ...

Seriously, my room was decked out with posters, statues, and pieces of papyrus, while my shelves were stacked with books on all aspects of Egyptian life, history, and mythology. As much as I loved ...