The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Horus is one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian mythology, but his story is more complex than most people realize. As the falcon-headed god of kingship, war, and the sky, Horus played a ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Pharaoh Shepsekaf, the reigning ruler of the fourth Egyptian dynasty ... Egyptians venerated the sun; for instance, the god who took the form of a falcon, Horus, was typically depicted with ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

People might claim that the Egyptian pyramids were ... was later resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis (the goddess of healing and magic), Horus (a falcon-shaped god of war and the ...

Sekhmet the lioness, war god ... planets and stars! The sun and the moon, in the timeless stone we'd carve. Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods.

In the Egyptian city of Esna ... and Behedety, the falcon god of the midday sun. In the late third or early fourth century a.d., by which time the temple had presumably been closed, the residents ...

The Sphinx itself, it seems, symbolized the pharaoh presenting offerings to the sun god in the court ... itself Horemakhet—or Horus-in-the-Horizon, the earliest known Egyptian name for the ...