The article discusses the biography of Her-khuf, who lived during the 4th dynasty, as a model example of ancient Egyptian biographical inscription of the Old Kingdom period. The first part of the text describes the structure ...

The article discusses the possible origins and meaning of the toponym twr jzbl “Mount of Jezebel” used in the Arabic Second Book of Maccabees as the designation for the Samaritan holy mountain, Gerizim.

Mercury, the Roman god of merchants and wayfarers, identified with the Greek god Hermes, occupies a relatively conspicuous place in the Mishnah and the Talmud. Rabbis seem to have been confronted quite often with sites ...

The largest necropolis of pharaonic Egypt was a place where kings, as well as noblemen and middle class citizens from the cosmopolitan metropolis of Memphis, were buried during a long period spanning almost four millennia, ...

The article is a diachronic study focusing on the presence of Ancient Egyptian culture in the humanistic consciousness of Poles, beginning with the reports of the first travelers from the beginning of the 16th century, ...