A unique opportunity to test ancient Egyptian perfumes is underway in an exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir ...

Alexandria, Egypt's historic coastal city, is grappling with severe consequences of climate change. Rising sea levels and ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted ...

Sixth grade students at the John F. Ryan School learned about the history of ancient Egypt through a unique educational ...

You could walk along an ancient Chaco road and not know it. To a studied eye, there might be signs: a stripe of rocks here, a depression there. Some areas might have broken pieces of pottery sprinkled ...

According to surveys, blue is by far the world’s most popular hue, regardless of geography or gender — mostly owing to our favorable associations with it, or so researchers posit. Not ...

Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.

Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a reference to the ancient civilisation’s name for the region, also ...

The other clips reveal facts from other parts of this huge continent including: Egypt, in the north of this continent, famed for its ancient pyramids ... in KS1 geography in England; the ...