Egyptian mythology has a lot of gods. Some of them have loomed large in pop culture and the public imagination: Ra, Apophis, Anubis, Isis, Bast, Osiris, ...

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Gamal Abdel Nasser, as a young Egyptian army officer, was surrounded by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in ...

The statues, carved from black granite, were found near the ancient southern Egyptian city of Luxor.

Archaeologists found the skeleton of a once-mummified lion at an Egyptian site dating to more than 2,000 years ago, confirming suspicions that lions were revered as sacred animals.

Archaeologists have discovered a huge cache of Ancient Egyptian artefacts—including mummified lion cubs, cobras and crocodiles—at the famous Saqqara necropolis, according to the country's ...

The guardian lion, the nourishing cow, the river-god are themes Hindus are very familiar with. In the Puranas, the earth is visualised as the cow, Bhu-devi, who is protected by Vishnu.

The lewd, leering face of the Egyptian god Bes can be seen in modern images of the Christian Devil, writes Alastair Sooke.

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A. These rituals were related to the cult of the Egyptian lion goddess. In ancient Egyptian myth, the sun god is unhappy with mankind. He finds they are rebellious.

In an ancient Egyptian temple complex, a conservation team discovered eight statues of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, protector of the sun god Ra.