Reliefs of decans (left), Esna, Egypt; Sagittarius relief (center) before restoration, Esna, Egypt; Sagittarius relief (right) after restoration, Esna, Egypt For centuries, layers of soot have coated ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sung would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later.

The Nile was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt, and its inundation was the pivotal annual event in Egyptian civilization. Every summer, between May and September, the river gradually swelled until it ...

Beginning with its construction in the fourth century B.C. and continuing for more than 800 years, the Temple of Isis on the small island of Philae, set where the Nile flowed out of Nubia, was visited ...