Mithras was a Persian God and was also called Mithra. He can be seen in pictures and paintings wearing a Roman fantasy version of Persian dress. But that is all that connects him to Persia. […]
Navigium Isidis meaning Voyage of Isis was the main festival of the Isis cult. It was held in the month of March. […]
Linguistic investigations about the Indo-European languages have had many appealing stories that led to other discoveries. One of these discoveries took place in China in the late 1800s. It shed more light on the historical and anthropological aspects of this region, which wasn’t known before. […]
Comparative linguistic methods have been used to reconstruct long-gone languages like Proto-Indo-European. Through a creative process of reasoning, Ferdinand de Saussure, the prominent linguist, was able to solve a major mystery of this language regarding its syllable structure. […]
The Proto-Indo-European language is the hypothetical, reconstructed parent of all Indo-European languages. Linguists have been able to reconstruct this language through a series of comparative methods. Read on to see how this process of reconstruction takes place. […]
Deir el-Medina was known for its architectural marvels as a result of its highly skilled craftsmen. How was the status of those craftsmen different from other Egyptian workers? […]
The ordinary people in ancient Egypt had many career options. Women also stepped out of their domestic boundaries to earn their living. However, their work as artisans was hardly ever acknowledged. […]
The Egyptian masses didn’t live a life of luxury and splendor. From making boats and writing material from papyrus to working on farms and mines, both men and women toiled hard to earn a living. […]
A look inside the ancient Egyptian religion and their different types of deities: From hybrid gods to gods with non-animal forms, and why did ancient Egyptians choose to worship these specific forms. […]
Understanding the religious life of ancient Egypt: From the ordinary people to priests and pharaohs to deities, covering the entire religious order of ancient Egypt. […]
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