A 2,300-year-old marble statuette discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, has offered new insights into how dwarves were perceived during the Ptolemaic period (332–150 B.C.). Depicting a muscular, nude dwarf ...
Wepet Renpet was intrinsically linked to the heliacal rising of Sirius, which heralded the summer solstice and the annual flooding of the Nile River. This inundation was crucial for irrigating ...