"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo ... An immense mummified crocodile. A 3,100-year-old wig made from braided human hair. The wig in particular dragged the ancient world to the fore ...

Several other temples also existed through-out Egypt, such as the famoux Kom-Ombo. According to Herodotus, the Sobek temple in Arsinoe contained a pool where a crocodile lived. This crocodile was ...

“Crocodiles are misunderstood because they ... crocodilian to an ivory letter opener his father brought back from Egypt, where he fought during World War II. “The opener was in the shape ...

Be honest, how effective do you consider crocodile dung would be as a contraceptive? It's one of the less bizarre items in a new Radio 4 programme on the history of family planning. Some of the ...

It represents Sobek, the crocodile god of Egypt. I actually scanned the tail of a Nile crocodile and created the illusion of a fossil with alabaster quartz crystals,' Chakil says. 'Instead of just ...

“When we finished training in Egypt, President Mnangagwa was to be ... Cde Ziki said at Whawha, he found all the Crocodile Gang leaders except Cde Mnangagwa, who had been sent to Harare.

A new study found that one crocodile's mummification began "very rapidly after the death," which was caused by blunt force trauma to its head. So revered were certain animals in ancient Egyptian ...