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 ...

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

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 small bronze statue had been unearthed by the guest's father when he was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among these were treasures such as statues, jewelry ... practice known as the "Awakening of Osiris." An article published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology posited that the clay vessels ...

Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods ... Egyptians believed that he invented hieroglyphs. Osiris was the god of the underworld and the afterlife.

was surprised to hear the origin of how the statue was found. He revealed it depicted the Egyptian god Osiris, god of the underworld and agriculture, and explained his theory behind how it ended ...