As the goddess of motherhood and fertility, Hathor was an especially important deity among ancient Egyptian women. Indeed, out of all the female goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon, Hathor had the ...

The Egyptian Goddess Hathor, linked to fertility and a protector of women, has been linked to childbirth rituals. Egyptian women squatted on bricks while giving birth, and the only known surviving ...

Research has found that Ancient Egyptian women wore ‘tramp stamp’ tattoos to protect them during childbirth. However, rather than the derogatory modern meaning attached to inked designs on the ...

The found artifact was once one of many pieces that fit together to make a glazed ceramic inlay portrait of Hathor, a powerful goddess and protector of women who was also daughter of the sun god ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

The deities of ancient Egypt oversaw virtually every aspect of existence, with gods and goddesses representing ... Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced the galaxy ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky ...