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A modern picture of Elephantine Island

Archaeology

Elephantine Island | Where Pharaohs, Mercenaries, and Prophets Once Walked

The Giza necropolis, looking west. (Photo courtesy of R. Bauval.)

Archaeology

Giza plateau | The Select Place of the First Time

Khafre Pyramid’s SAR Scan Expose ‘Forbidden Chamber’—What Science Won’t Tell You!

Modern Egyptology, Scholarly Research

Khafre Pyramid’s SAR Scan Expose ‘Forbidden Chamber’—What Science Won’t Tell You!

Wooden figurines of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Characteristic funerary offerings of the Late Period and Ptolemaic Period.

Gods, Religion & Mythology

Ptah-Sokar-Osiris: The God Who Was Three

Close-up of Khafre Enthroned – capturing the serene authority of the 4th Dynasty Pharaoh, a symbol of divine kingship in ancient Egyptian art.

Artifacts

Khafre Enthroned and the Triad of Osiris, Horus, and Isis Explained

The final tableau of the Book of the Gates is an illustration of the Egyptian cosmogony. The ordered universe originates from Nun, the chaotic ocean of beginnings. According to the sarcophagus of King Seti I, preserved at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London

Gods, Religion & Mythology

Nun| The Ocean That Gave Birth to Gods and Destroyed Humanity

Exploring "The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife" by Erik Hornung

Books, Modern Egyptology

Exploring “The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife” by Erik Hornung

MrBeast’s Pyramid Video Controversy: What Secrets Were Edited Out?

Modern Egyptology

MrBeast’s Pyramid Video Controversy: What Secrets Were Edited Out?

Funeral procession of Abydos with the boat that would transport the bodies of Menna and his wife.

Religion & Mythology

Neshmet Barque | Ancient Egypt’s Sacred Vessel of Resurrection & Eternal Life

A standard bearing an image of the god Wepwawet, between 722 and 332 BCE, Egyptian Museum of Turin.

Gods, Religion & Mythology

Wepwawet | The Celestial Jackal Who Defied Expectations

Inner chamber of the pyramid of Unas

Language & Writing, Literature & Texts

Stars, Serpents, and Sacrifice | The Ancient Mysteries of Pyramid Texts

Orientations of the so-called ventilation channels of the Great Pyramid. Alpha Draconis, Ursa Minor, Orion and Sirius

Archaeology

Khufu’s Pyramid shafts and Ancient Egyptian cosmology