They were digging in the temple of Horus in Nekhen (or Hierakonpolis), which used to be the political and religious heart of Upper Egypt, when they came across an impressive cache of objects. This ...

ABSTRACT: In search of textual references to a monumental lion at Giza predating the Old Kingdom, we focused our investigation on the earliest use of three ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting the ...

Known as the ‘protector of the king’, Nekhbet has one of the oldest temples in Egypt in Nekhen, located in what is now Awsan. The winged goddess was revered as Upper Egypt’s patron deity. Conflicting ...

Some year-round settlements eventually grew into cities. Naqada and Hierakonpolis (also known as Nekhen) became important urban centers between 3500 B.C. and 3000 B.C., Steven Snape, an honorary ...

Horus perhaps shows as a falcon on the Narmer Palette, dating from about the 31st century BC. At Nekhen, the city of the falcon, Nekhney perhaps has been worshipped as falcon god. Horus perhaps shows ...

British archaeologists James Quibell and Frederick Green discovered it in the ruins of a temple in Hierakonpolis (Nekhen), south of Luxor, in 1897-98. Now popularly known as the Narmer Palette ...

Archaeological digs in the ancient Egyptian city of Nekhen have found buildings from around 3500 B.C. containing the remains of captive hippos, baboons and elephants – animals not native to Egypt.

Renee Friedman, Courtesy of Hierakonpolis Expedition Archaeological digs in the ancient Egyptian city of Nekhen have found buildings from around 3500 B.C. containing the remains of captive hippos, ...