Horus is one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian mythology ... his connection to the Pharaohs, and his many forms—from Harpocrates, the child god, to Re-Horakhty, the sun deity.

A researcher believes he has found hidden messages on a 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian obelisk that is now in Paris.

Mark Fischer via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 The ancient Egyptian pharaoh ... gods were a significant part of Tutankhamun’s story. His father had rejected polytheism in favor of ...

As Horus was the god of kingship, the pharaoh was his living personification. The pharaohs, as they continued Horus’ divine reign on earth, displayed several symbols of power and protection. The ...

The Aten was the sun disk that Akhenaten demanded all of Egypt worship when he ascended the throne. Ushering in an era of ...

A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian ... the god Osiris and permitted the transfiguration of Tutankhamun. As king, he was thought to be the embodiment of the god Horus in life ...

In Egyptian mythology, Horus awakens ... of the young pharaoh invoking Osiris. In an abrupt and revolutionary turn, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun’s father, had made worshipping Aten, the sun, the ...

The band of inscription running down the front names Imseti, one of the sons of Horus, and the goddess ... the valley is the site of some 62 tombs of Egyptian pharaohs and nobles.

During the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, Egyptians continued to worship their traditional gods even as foreign ... in the Ptolemaic temple of Horus in the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu.

Although the Romans could not curtail the immense popularity of Dionysus, the god's appearance and the legends surrounding his worship ... power of the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, Isis was ...