The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

Osiris was one of the most popular ancient Egyptian gods and was connected with male fertility ... Prevention and treatment of illness and disease therefore included prayers at home to statues of gods ...

An Antiques Roadshow expert got a surprise when an item dug up in a garden in St Albans turned out to be 2,500 years old. The ...

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet tall. Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a white marble statue of a woman at an ancient Egyptian temple which they ... which means the ‘great tomb of Osiris’, to be the final resting place of the ...

As its name suggests, this ritual is based on the death and resurrection of Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld. It is also possible that the staffs and vessels were used for a ...

Thought to have been founded during the reign of Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century B.C., the temple was dedicated to Osiris—a deity in the ancient Egyptian pantheon associated ...

a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the god of the underworld who was resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis (the goddess of healing and magic), Horus (a falcon ...