Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient royalty at a sun temple in Heliopolis, an archaeological site that was once a major city near what is now Cairo. The stone-carved ...

Leo the lion is central in myths: Hercules' Greek Nemean Lion, Jesus as the Lion of Judah, the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egyptian myth, Hindu goddess Durga’s protective lion, and Chinese 'foo lions' ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered dozens of statues of Pharaonic gods, including Osiris, left in burial pits for thousands of years. In a recent study, the joint French and Egyptian excavation ...

When I first came across the Egyptian civilisation in the Class 3 history book, I was left wonderstruck. The ancient kingdom in Africa had a mystical character—with pharaohs, mummies, pyramids, gilded ...

A sandstone sphinx was discovered by Egyptian archaeologists who have been draining water from a flooded temple in Aswan, Reuters reported Sunday. The sphinx probably dates back to the Ptolemaic era ...