A significant new study has provided a surprise reason for an existing enigma of ancient Egyptian religion, in terms of two completely different animals being chosen for representing the same god.

Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn't a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

In ancient Egypt, animals were not kept at a distance from daily life. People lived with them, named them, and included them in how they understood home and family. Cats and dogs appear everywhere, ...

Creation and origins of life according to ancient Egyptian sources 11 -- Magico-religious beliefs in ancient Egypt and the perception of the natural world 13 -- Fauna of the pharaonic period: origins ...

Ibis Coffin contains a mummified ibis from the fourth century B.C. Photo Credit: Gavin Ashworth, Brooklyn Museum "Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt" is on display at the Bellagio ...

Researchers at a UK university have "digitally unwrapped" three mummified animals from ancient Egypt using high-resolution 3D scans. The team were also able to dissect the mummies to learn how the ...

DONALDSON TAKES A LOOK INSIDE. THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF ARTIFACT FOUND IN EXCAVATIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPT IS ACTUALLY MUMMIFIED ANIMALS. THERE WERE 7 MILLION DOGS THAT WERE MUMMIFIED, FOUND SO FAR, 4 ...

In ancient Egypt, animals got as much TLC for the afterlife as people did. Chemical analysis of animal mummies from the Liverpool Museum in England indicate that the Egyptians used great care in ...

How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they lived alongside? Our latest research, based on the venomous snakes described in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, ...