Amun-Ra Egyptology Blog

The exhibition beautifully captures how religion shaped the region by GARRY SHAW  |  17 December 2015 In the British Museum's latest...

By Rossella Lorenzi The oldest Egyptian leather manuscript has been found in the shelves of the Egyptian museum in Cairo, where it was st...

By Michael E. Miller What do you call an ancient Egyptian animal mummy with no body inside? A modern mystery. Using high powered X-ray...

A Complete Set of Canopic Jars This set of canopic jars was made to contain the internal organs removed from the body during the mummifi...

Far from superstitiously worshipping animals, the ancient Egyptians had perhaps surprisingly sophisticated attitudes to the natural world, w...

Photocredit: Walters Art Museum A Worshipper Kneeling Before the God Anubis A bronze statuette of the anthropomorphic god Anubis fa...

A 1,500-year-old papyrus charm thought to be "the first ever found to refer to the Last Supper and use magic in the Christian context...

During a turbulent period in ancient Egypt, common people turned to animal mummies to petition the gods, inspiring the rise of a massive rel...

(Photocredit: Medelhavsmuseet) Inventory number MME 1995:004 Object Sculpture; Sistrum Country - Origin Egypt Material Faience; ...

Papyrus shreds reveal there was a time when female deities were fundamental to popular belief. Yet ancient geopolitics caused them to be sid...

He fathered Tutankhamun, married Nefertiti, and was one of the most original thinkers of his era. Then why is the pharoah Akhenaten often di...

By Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor   |   January 02, 2014 Egypt's King Tutankhamun was embalmed in an unusual way, including havin...

Lecturer details research suggesting more complex role for Egyptian queen By Valerie Vande Panne, Harvard Correspondent In history, the ...

Brought over by mysterious conquerors and fused with a local deity, the nameless goddess was a kinder, gentler - and yellow - goddess. By ...

Many Egyptians continue to use several yearly calendars, the heritage of the country’s different religious traditions, writes  Samia Abdenno...

By Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor   |   August 30, 2013 Akhenaten was a pharaoh of Egypt who reigned over the country for about 17 ye...

Lettuce has been harvested for millenia—it was depicted by ancient Egyptians on the walls of tombs dating back to at least 2,700 B.C. The ea...

The funeral rituals of ancient Egypt and the belief in celestial resurrection have bequeathed an unusual legacy and an essential artistic r...

The West’s most important repository of learning by J. Harold Ellens   •  05/01/2013 In March of 415 C.E., on a sunny day in the holy ...

By Melissa Healy April 29, 2013 I'll bet you that archaeologist Betsy Bryan's perspective on reality-show behavior is a little lo...