Archaeology Odyssey takes the reader on a journey through the classical world as seen through the eyes of the top archaeologists in the discipline. Written with you in mind, the experts explain the latest in classical research in a way that is accessible to the general public. Read the complete series today!
Little is known about most of ancient Egypt’s 1,400 or so gods. In one myth, the god Atum emerged from Chaos to create the gods Shu and Tefnut, who created Nut and Geb—populating the heavens and the netherworld. So widespread were the gods that Akhenaten’s abstract Sun Disk, which the pharaoh proclaimed as the only god, must have been shocking indeed. Here we present a short list of Egyptian deities.
Worshiping the Living One, the Sun Horus of the Akhet, who
becomes active in the Akhet in his identity as the Light that is
in the Sun-disk, alive forever continually, the living sun-disk,
the great one who is in jubilee, lord of all that the sun-disk
encircles, lord of the sky, lord of the land, lord of the House of
On at least two occasions, the famous Trojan gold nearly found a home in the United States.
