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Leiurus quinquestriatus can be found in desert and scrubland habitats ranging from North Africa through to the Middle East. Its range covers a wide sweep of territory in the Sahara, Arabian Desert, Thar Desert, and Central Asia, from Algeria and Mali in the west through to Egypt, Ethiopia, Asia Minor and the Arabian Peninsula, eastwards to Kazakhstan and western India in the northeast and ...
Serket / ˈ s ɜːr ˌ k ɛ t / (Ancient Egyptian: srqt) is the goddess of healing venomous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology, originally the deification of the scorpion. [2] Her family life is unknown, but she is sometimes credited as the daughter of Neith and Khnum, making her a sister to Sobek and Apep.
Scorpion II (Ancient Egyptian: possibly Selk or Weha [1]), also known as King Scorpion, was a ruler during the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt (c. 3200–3000 ...
Scorpion I (fl. c. 3255 BC) was a ruler of Upper Egypt during Naqada III. He was one of the first rulers of Ancient Egypt , and a graffito of him depicts a battle with an unidentified predynastic ruler.
The Aswan scorpion invasion came on 12 November 2021 in Egypt's Aswan region after flooding caused by heavy rains. More than 500 people were reported injured by stings. The incident took place in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan. Heavy rains began to fall near the Nile River. Strong winds began to blow.
The Scorpion macehead (also known as the Major Scorpion macehead) is a decorated ancient Egyptian macehead found by British archeologists James E. Quibell and Frederick W. Green in what they called the main deposit in the temple of Horus at Hierakonpolis during the dig season of 1897–1898. [1]
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the remains of a multi-skilled wizard-doctor who treated the pharaohs some 4,000 years ago.. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...
Hededet or Hedjedjet (ḥdd.t) is a scorpion goddess of the ancient Egyptian religion. She resembles Serket in many ways, but was in later periods merged into Isis. She was depicted with the head of a scorpion, nursing a baby. [2] She is mentioned in the Book of the Dead.