This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is taking visitors on a journey to ancient Egypt. “Divine Egypt,” which runs through January 19, 2026, is the Manhattan museum’s first major exhibition of ...

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 ...

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 ...

We call those people ancient Egyptians. Ancient Egyptians lived beside the longest river in the world, the Nile. The water helped them grow food, and they could travel up and down the river in boats ...

Animals worshipped as gods? You won't believe the divine status some creatures held long before civilization! From ancient Egypt's sacred cats embodying fertility to powerful bulls seen as living gods ...