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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 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. His tomb is known for the evidence of early examples of wine consumption in Ancient Egypt.
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 ...
This also shows that Scorpion's armies had penetrated the very Southern Nile Delta. It may be the conquests of Scorpion I that started the Egyptian hieroglyphic system by creating a need to keep records and vast swathes of nomes under control via secular writing from previous developments in proto-writing. [1]
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 ...
Isis, an Egyptian mother goddess who sometimes appeared as a scorpion and was accompanied and guarded by seven minor scorpion deities on her travels; Lisin, also known as Negun, a Sumerian goddess identified with the star α Scorpionis, the "heart of Scorpion" Malinalxochitl, the Aztec goddess of snakes, scorpions, and insects of the desert
1,500 scorpions are required to produce a single gram of venom – which can be worth as much as $30,000 Egyptian company extracts venom from thousands of scorpions [Video] Skip to main content