At a cultural festival in the Egyptian city of Luxor, the spotlight was on tahtib, which is part sport and part traditional ...
It began more than a century ago, deep within the ancient turquoise mines of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. There, faint carvings ...
Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.
Archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of an ancient Egyptian “pleasure boat” near the ruins of Cleopatra VII’s lost ...
In a quiet corner of New York’s Brooklyn Museum, a luminous alabaster sculpture of an Egyptian queen commands attention. Just 16 inches high, the sculpture is modest in scale but arresting in presence ...
Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...
Historian Mike Hennessy brings to life the game where it - probably - all began for one of football’s great love-hate ...