Ancient Egyptians believed strongly in the afterlife ... while a heavier heart would be consumed by Ammut, the female devourer of the deceased, leading to the ultimate “Great Death,” or non-existence.

Ancient jewelry is up for auction at ... presence rather than something else that everyone is going to wear and look the same,” Hannah Fox Solomon, a senior specialist and head of the department ...

proving that ancient Egyptian medicine was also conducting experimental treatments or medical explorations in relation to cancer." The female skull also featured a large lesion consistent with a ...

The cemetery provides key clues about how the region transitioned into the great Ancient Egyptian civilization.

The article explores the significance of Egyptian mummies ... his extraordinary life and the grandeur of ancient Egypt. Hatshepsut, one of the few female pharaohs, that ruled during the 18th ...

When Pharaoh confronts the two righteous midwives and asks why they had not obeyed his instructions, they respond: “The Hebrew women (ivriyot) are unlike the Egyptian women!”. Pharaoh is ...

The Stoic philosopher Hierocles aimed to be more specific about the division of labor between men and women in Ancient Greece and Rome. He stated, “The man should take care of the fields, the market, ...

Over the centuries, as we learned more and more about ancient Egypt, the question of how the Egyptians were able to move the giant stones from their quarries north and east of Cairo, the building ...

An ancient cemetery ... if you look at what classical writers were talking about and if you look at the archaeological context, there are a lot of hints that women were able to attain high status ...