The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) is a big and highly venomous member of the family Elapidae, the cobras. They are widespread in semiarid areas of northern and eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula ...

Carnivorous plants have developed a terrific array of weird and wonderful adaptations that help them flourish in nutrient-poor environments ... Native to swamps in mountainous regions of the USA, the ...

This eerie chamber is one of several “megatombs,” as the archaeologists describe them, discovered last year at Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis that once served the nearby Egyptian capital of ...

Lehner married an Egyptian woman and spent the ensuing years ... century found pieces of its carved stone beard and a royal cobra emblem from its headdress. Residues of red pigment are still ...

Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ... and depicted Ramesses II wearing a headdress topped with a royal cobra. However, the discovery of this ancient statue—and exquisite ...