By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

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

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of ...

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

Omar Chakil's stone furniture collection was designed to reference ancient Egyptian gods His 17-piece Transcendence ... which was a symbol of rebirth, resurrection and transformation for the ...

Credit: Vania Teofilo / CC BY-SA 3.0 A mysterious Egyptian ... reflects symbols often linked with wealth and influence. The outer covering of the chest also shows a scene depicting the deceased lying ...

As a cheetah deity, Mafdet in Egyptian mythology was a goddess of safety from scorpions and snakes. She was also a symbol of the judicial process (the death penalty). Goddess Mafdet with the head of a ...