Worshippers would place a coin into the machine and receive holy water to bathe themselves with before entering the temple. At the end of the day, the slot machine would be emptied of its coins and ...

While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and ...

Archaeologists located an ancient Egyptian temple slotted into a cliff face. The site—likely dedicated to a lion-headed fertility goddess known as Repit—once featured a striking entrance.

In 174 AD the ancient traveller Pausanias admired the beauty and harmony of the temple and attributed it to Iktinos, the architect of the Parthenon. The temple appears to have been forgotten for ...

Archaeologists working in Luxor, Egypt, recently made several discoveries in the area around Deir al-Bahari (also spelled Deir el-Bahari and Dayr al-Baḥrī), the famous mortuary temple built by ...

Archaeologists in Egypt are working to restore the Ramesseum, a temple belonging to Ramesses II, an Old Testament pharaoh believed to have interacted with Moses in the Book of Exodus.

Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful ... Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images Ancient Egypt was primarily ruled by men, with ...