Languages: English, Spanish A study of a scroll made more than 2,300 years ago has revealed how there were likely far more venomous snakes in ancient Egypt than are living in the country today.

When one hears "Unusual Ancient Egyptian God" you rarely ever think "Snake With Legs" but this one is just that, and was ...

Another equally prominent snake deity is Renenutet, the goddess of nourishment and harvest depicted as a woman with the head of a cobra who would watch over granaries. Central to Egyptian royal ...

Indiana Jones famously fears slithering snakes in Egyptian tombs—and apparently, so did one ancient, high-ranking dignitary. Archaeologists recently discovered a 2,500-year-old burial chamber ...

What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Friede would know. Over the past few decades, he's let himself be bitten over two hundred ...

The lotus bulb and snake motifs are repeated throughout the ... not proof of electricity in ancient Egypt. Electricity was developed thousands of years after the ancient Egyptian civilization.

Snake bracelets from Egypt's Roman Period dating to the first century. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART IN NEW YORK In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered Egypt during his military campaign across ...

Archaeologists often find tombs in Egypt that have some of these magical, or apotropaic, sayings against snake bites — but not the vast number seen in this tomb, Bárta said. Abúsír contains a ...