The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

whose work has “convincingly argued that the unusual mummification of Tutankhamun for a royal body was done to emphasize his nature as a newly transfigured Osiris… and that the king was being ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The four troughs and four staffs encircled Tutankhamun’s mummy, maybe meant to represent ... in a “funerary rite likely associated with Osiris,” as Brown writes in the study.

Mummification was just one step in preparing for the afterlife. Osiris was chief god of the dead and one of the most popular gods. He's usually shown as a mummified human wearing a white crown and ...

Mummification was just one step in preparing for the afterlife. Osiris was chief god of the dead and one of the most popular gods. He's usually shown as a mummified human wearing a white crown and ...

Osiris was then mummified by the jackal-headed ... However, the staffs at the head of Tutankhamen’s mummy—along with trays that are thought to have held libations to once again imbue him ...