Extinct from Egypt millennia ago, the so-called oriental population still holds important cultural symbolism in the Middle East. It is mentioned in the Old Testament as a messenger of fertility ...

But Horus ultimately won the fight, became ruler of Egypt and, eventually, regained his left eye. It was restored "by the ...

Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a wading bird with long legs and a long beak). He was the ...

a role the ibis and its close relatives have some experience filling, from ancient Egypt to the The Harvard Lampoon’s emblem. The banner of the University of Sydney Alumni Festival.Credit ...

A 4,500-year-old hieroglyph depicting a northern bald ibis, Edfu, Egypt. Image courtesy of Ariel Vándor. Up to the 1960-1980s, the bald ibis was a common sight in the open steppes and ...