duncan1890 / Getty Images Egyptian gods and goddesses were an essential part of ancient life. So much so, in fact, that there are said to be over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon.

Egyptian gods and goddesses were an essential part of ancient life. So much so, in fact, that there are said to be over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon. And while a select few of these ...

Experts believe these ornate tongues were intended to allow the dead to speak with the god of the underworld, Osiris. Gold nails, however, are rarely found in Egyptian archaeological digs.

A team from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Archaeology and the German University of Tübengen have fully unearthed the entrance of a well-preserved 2,000-year-old temple in Sohag, Egypt.

Though the inscriptions also portray Egyptian fertility god Min, his wife Repit, commonly depicted as a lioness, and their son, the child-god Kolanthes. “Once again, the goddess Repit can be ...

That was when he noticed, on a list of the museum’s holdings, a cup from the second century B.C. bearing the face of Bes, a notoriously ugly ancient Egyptian god who was fond of revelry.

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Universitat de Barcelona The gilded palate prosthetics are believed by experts to have been inserted so that the dead would be able to speak with Osiris, the god of the underworld, after their death.

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