duncan1890 / Getty Images Egyptian gods and goddesses were an essential part of ancient life. So much so, in fact, that there are said to be over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon.

Experts believe these ornate tongues were intended to allow the dead to speak with the god of the underworld, Osiris. Gold nails, however, are rarely found in Egyptian archaeological digs.

A team from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Archaeology and the German University of Tübengen have fully unearthed the entrance of a well-preserved 2,000-year-old temple in Sohag, Egypt.

Though the inscriptions also portray Egyptian fertility god Min, his wife Repit, commonly depicted as a lioness, and their son, the child-god Kolanthes. “Once again, the goddess Repit can be ...

Researchers explained in the new study that Bes mugs celebrated the Egyptian god by the same name, depicted with big eyes, a wagging tongue, a tail and a crown of feathers, who they worshipped for ...

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The mug is designed to resemble the head of Bes, an Egyptian god associated with joy, fertility and household protection. It was likely used around the second century B.C.E. during Egypt’s ...

The footage prompted social media commenters to ponder whether the creature with the large erect ears was Anubis, an ancient Egyptian god of the ... the city with baskets of poisoned meat.

That was when he noticed, on a list of the museum’s holdings, a cup from the second century B.C. bearing the face of Bes, a notoriously ugly ancient Egyptian god who was fond of revelry.