The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

Ziv Nitzan was on a hike with her family when a rock on the ground caught her eye. But when the 3-year-old girl picked up the ...

A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...

A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was ...

Oh!are the monsters that duelists use in each of the anime. Naturally, the monsters with the best designs are the ones that ...

The blue lotus, a captivating water lily entwined with Egyptian mythology, has long dazzled archaeologists and historians.

The significance of the blue lotus was confirmed in 1922 when Howard Carter found blue lotus petals covering the body of ...

First Royal Tomb Since King Tut Discovered Mohamed Abdel Badie—head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities—noted that the pharaoh’s tomb is much larger than ...

According to the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament (which are slightly different collections of ancient Hebrew writings), the Kingdom of Judah's King Josiah confronted the Egyptian ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an Egyptian army where an Israelite king was killed. The discoveries at Megiddo, which inspired "Armageddon," reinforce biblical stories about King ...

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 ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue ... they awoke—reportedly saw the face of Hathor, the goddess of love, beauty and fertility. "It's always depicted with the ...