About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained ...

First, it argues that the Ptolemies invested energy in searching for Egyptian objects and gods’ statues in the Levant, which they distributed among the temples, though some may have been newly ...

Gilded statues of Isis and Osiris were taken from the Isis temple at Philae ... chief mourner of Osiris, the god of the dead, Isis played a central role in Egyptian, and later Nubian, concepts ...

The Roman-era temple of Esna, 60 kilometers south of Luxor in Egypt, is undergoing extensive restoration work in an Egyptian-German ... s wheel to the creator god Khnoum. Credit: University ...

Born in 30 BC to a wealthy Jewish family in the Egyptian city ... Caligula had ordered a statue that portrayed himself as a god. He planned to put it up in the temple at Jerusalem.

Built to honor Amon-Re (ancient Egypt's sun god) and the female pharaoh ... this funerary temple features three tiers of porticos with statues, pillars and hieroglyphs. You'll also find two ...

The sun and the moon, in the timeless stone we'd carve. Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a ...

Historic treasures housed in this museum include a statue of Tuthmosis III from the Karnak Temple Complex ... Luxor Museum's impressive collection of Egyptian artifacts. Several recent travelers ...