HORUS. In ancient Egypt there were originally several gods known by the name Horus, but the best known and most important from the beginning of the historic period was the son of Osiris and Isis who was identified with the king of Egypt. According to...

Egyptian god, whose name meaning ‘he who is above’, ‘he who is afar’—would seem to indicate a sky-god. He was depicted as a falcon, with the sun and the moon as his eyes. At the very beginning of the historical period, the...

(in Plutarch Harueris) The Egyptian form of the name, Her-ur, means ‘the elder Horus’. The designation serves to distinguish the old falcon-god → Horus from the Horus of the Osiris myth: that is to say, the god is a theological...

Egyptian god of the morning sun. The name means ‘Horus of the horizon’, i.e. of the place where the sun (→ Horus) rises. Harachte was represented as a falcon, and he tended to coalesce with the sun-god → Re in the figure of...

Horus is one of the most ancient deities of the Ancient Egyptian religion, who appears in his earliest form in late Predynastic Egypt. Represented as a falcon, his name is believed to mean 'the high' or 'the far off'[1] and his earliest connections are...

Kneph the god shuddered, shaking the cosmos; Mother Isis sat upright in bed, Pointed with spite to her barbarous spouse, Her green eyes afire as of old, and said: "See, the old lecher. He's almost dead Through whose mouth every killing frost has...

That one of the world's best-known restorers of Egyptian antiquities was jailed last week, in Britain's first successful prosecution of an antiquities dealer on smuggling charges, was largely thanks to the efforts of one dogged detective in Scotland Yard's art and antiques squad. ...