Famous snake babies include Taylor Swift and J.K. Rowling. The reptile is revered or feared across global cultures.The first ...

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" ...

Inscriptions on his tomb suggest that Teti Neb Fu was famous in ancient Egypt and had a number of titles. These include ...

The Rod of Asclepius remains a symbol of health and medicine around the world to this day. Asclepius was a demi-god son of ...

Imagine a snake — coiled, elusive, and steeped in meaning — emerging from the depth of the world's cultural history to leave ...

a terrifying snake deity who would dare to challenge Ra, the Sun God, into the dark, dangerous Underworld. These cats are not just animals; they are warriors of the night. Egyptian’s belief of ...

Child: What about this snake one? Ancient Egyptian person: You mean ‘Mehen’? It’s named after a god in the form of a snake. Oh yes! That’s very popular. Though I’m not keen on snakes myself.

As a priest-magician of Serket, the goddess associated with protection against venomous creatures, Tetinebefou would have likely specialised in treating snake ... of the Egyptian capital Memphis.

The Ptolemaic rulers accepted and reinforced the Egyptian motifs including ... In fact, sacred snakes were kept in temples dedicated to the god and sometimes allowed to roam freely around patients ...