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 ...

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 ...

A 2020 study peered into the mummies of a snake and a cat from the collection of the Egypt Center at Swansea University in the UK. They used a technique called micro-CT scanning to get more ...

It has been adopted by various cultures and traditions throughout millennia, including Ancient Egypt, Greece and Norse mythology. Similarly, in more recent Northern American folklore, there's a hoop ...

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 ...