Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

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

The four golden staffs in the tomb may represent the staff of Horus ... Egyptian gods were a significant part of Tutankhamun’s story. His father had rejected polytheism in favor of worshiping ...

At Esna, he was venerated as Khnum-Ra, signifying the addition of the sun god Ra to his divine ... also appear in the Ptolemaic temple of Horus in the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu.

The mud trays are now thought to be part of a wider funerary ritual, which both invoked the god Osiris and permitted the ...

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 ...

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eternal life was reserved for the gods. But Egyptian texts covering the walls inside the Saqqara pyramids describe the king’s soul rising up after death to join the sun in the sky. By around ...

For centuries, the sun played a central role in Egyptian religion. Gods like Horus were tied to it—his right eye symbolizing the sun and strength, his left the moon and healing. By the Fourth Dynasty, ...