The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

People might claim that the Egyptian pyramids were built ... Ra (the god of the sun), Isis (the goddess of healing and magic), Horus (a falcon-shaped god of war and the sky) and Maat (the goddess ...

The temple was dedicated to the creator god Khnum, his family, and the goddess Neith ... also appear in the Ptolemaic temple of Horus in the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu. This is evidence, von ...

The band of inscription running down the front names Imseti, one of the sons of Horus ... Egyptian Parliament and many archaeologists resisted lifting a travel ban imposed in 1982 after a gilt ...

If you wanted to be close to the magical energy of Saqqara’s gods ... between Egyptian and Christian religious symbolism, for example in stories of the goddess Isis and her son Horus and the ...

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I especially loved the narrative of a god named Horus, the falcon-headed sky-god. I was a weird kid. I wanted to become an Egyptologist, and eventually write a book on Egyptian mythology. I was about ...