Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

Discover the perfect 3-day Cairo itinerary covering the Pyramids of Giza, Grand Egyptian Museum, Saqqara, Coptic and Islamic ...

The original meaning behind the cards, first created 500 years ago, still remains elusive. But that didn't stop our reporter ...

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

It symbolises us,” says Aya Abdel Raouf, one half of the Egyptian brand Okhtein, which she co-founded with her sister, Mounaz ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

While fishing in the Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon, a local resident spotted a fallen tree — and made an ...

Introduction Caucasians usually portray themselves as ldquo;clever rdquo; and ldquo;superior human beings rdquo; on earth .

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...

Brits have been summarily arrested and locked up on bogus charges, while other tourists have disappeared in mysterious ...