Who was the Egyptian god Ra?
The sun god Ra on his solar boat, traveling across the sky from east to west. From the New Kingdom tomb of Rameses III in the Valley of the Kings. [...]
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Who was Osiris? Egyptian god
Bringing offerings to Osiris(New Kingdom, ca. 1300 BC) Osiris was an ancient Egyptian god of growing things, like the Hindu god Indra or the Greek goddess Demeter. That's why sometimes [...]
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Egyptian goddess Mut
The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, one way of showing the Egyptian goddess Mut (Vatican Museum, Rome) Mut means "mother" in Egyptian, and in Ancient Egypt people worshipped Mut as a mother [...]
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Why were there mummies in ancient Egypt?
Egyptian mummies were buried in coffins. This mummy is from the New Kingdom (Vatican Museum, Rome). Natural mummies in Egypt Because Egypt is a very dry place, where it hardly [...]
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Who was the Egyptian god Isis?
Isis and her baby Horus (Middle Kingdom, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Isis, Osiris, and Set The god Isis, in Egyptian mythology, was married to her [...]
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Egyptian religion – Gods of ancient Egypt
Egyptian religion: Weighing the souls of the dead Polytheism and Egyptian religion As in the rest of Africa, the people of ancient Egypt were polytheistic throughout the Old Kingdom, the [...]
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Egyptian god Horus – Gods of Ancient Egypt
Good luck charm of the eye of the god Horus (Old Kingdom, ca. 2000 BC) Horus was the son of Re Horus was an Egyptian god, originally from Upper Egypt [...]
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What are canopic jars? Ancient Egypt
Canopic Jars from Egypt(Vatican Museum, Rome) When people died in ancient Egypt, if they were rich enough, they paid to have their body made into a mummy. Mummification preserved your body [...]
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Who was the African god Bes?
The Egyptian god Bes An African god Beginning about 2500 BC, near the end of the Old Kingdom period in Egypt, people started worshipping a new god, Bes. Nobody knows [...]
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Who was Anubis? – Ancient Egyptian god
The Egyptian god Anubis in the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Luxor (New Kingdom) Wolf head and black color Anubis was the way ancient Greek historians like Herodotus wrote the Egyptian [...]
