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Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

The discovery of exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b reveals how unusual other worlds can be. This exoplanet takes just 7.8 hours to ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot—the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising ...

If you're looking for the most horrifying execution method in history, scaphism is a strong contender. Used by the ancient ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Throughout ancient Egyptian history, taxes were very much part of daily life. Most Egyptians were farmers who owed the state both a period of labor service and a portion of their annual harvest. The ...

Known as a carnyx, the instrument is only the third of its kind to be found in Britain. It was discovered in the territory of the Iceni tribe, which fought the Romans under the leadership of the queen ...

Two monumental pylons form the entryway to the temple of Isis at Philae, which was built by the pharaoh Ptolemy II beginning around 260 B.C. Reliefs on this pylon depict the pharaoh Ptolemy XII ...

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have analysed bones found in a Belgian cave where cannibalism was known to have ...

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