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Ancient Egyptian-style illustration showing Osiris, depicted with blue skin, wrapped in white and holding a crook and flail, standing beside Isis, who wears a green dress and holds an ankh, with a throne-shaped crown on her head. Osiris, bronze figurine of the Late Period; in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin King Seti I offering a figure of maʿat to Osiris, Isis, and Horus; relief in the temple of King Seti I, Abydos, early 13th century bce.
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Al-Jizah. Giza Necropolis, Giza Plateau, Cairo, Egypt. Side view of Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) rising in the background. The sides of all three of the Giza pyramids are astronomically oriented to be north-south, east-west (see notes)
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Osiris, bronze figurine of the Late Period; in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin
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Invalidated site: University of Texas at Austin - Liberal Arts - The Story of Osiris, Isis and Horus: The Egyptian Myth of Creation. Oct 13, 2026
Add new Web site: Pressbooks.ccconline.org - Colorado Online World Mythology - Isis, Osiris, and Horus. Oct 28, 2025
Add new Web site: NOVA Open Publishing - The Story of Isis and Osiris (PDF). Sep 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Osiris of Bread and Beer (PDF). Jul 18, 2025
Add new Web site: BYU Scholars Archive - Abraham and Osiris (PDF). Jun 07, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 14, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Texas at Austin - Liberal Arts - The Story of Osiris, Isis and Horus: The Egyptian Myth of Creation. Dec 11, 2024
Add new Web site: Ancient Egypt Online - Osiris. Sep 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Tour Egypt - Osiris, Asar. Mar 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Outstanding Story of Osiris: His Myth, Symbols, and Significance in Ancient Egypt. Dec 12, 2022
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Osiris. Aug 29, 2022
Add new Web site: Mythopedia - Osiris. Jun 30, 2022
Media added. Feb 08, 2021
Media revised. May 07, 2020
Add new Web site: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum - Osiris. May 01, 2019
Add new Web site: Ancient Egypt Online - Osiris - Egyptian God of the Underworld. May 01, 2019
Corrected display issue. Sep 21, 2018
Add new Web site: Egyption Gods and Goddesses - Osiris. Mar 03, 2017
Added video. Feb 11, 2015
Add new Web site: Tour Egypt - Osiris. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Osiris. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: The Mystica.org - Osiris. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Osiris. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: Quatr.us - Osiris. Jul 12, 2013
Reinstated previous standing text noting that identification with Osiris did not imply resurrection. Nov 05, 2009
Article revised and updated. Jul 10, 2008
Added new Web site: Tour Egypt - Osiris.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Apr 23, 2007
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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