Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

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

Pi is part of Egyptian mythology Egyptians believed that the pyramids of Giza were like math marvels, built on the principles of pi. The fun fact about this pi connection? Well, imagine this: The ...

While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display in an ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.

Pharaoh Shepsekaf, the reigning ruler of the fourth Egyptian dynasty ... possible to pinpoint a specific reason for them, mostly because mathematical calculations concerning ancient paths of totality ...

Pharaoh Shepsekaf, the reigning ruler of the fourth Egyptian dynasty ... mostly because mathematical calculations concerning ancient paths of totality needed to be improved before a connection ...

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past ... time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol of the Egyptian ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists, is seen in Abydos ...