Egyptian craftspeople were ‘ahead of their time,’ study says.

Black History Month should not be about trivia or symbolic firsts. It should be about unlearning—about dismantling the white ...

However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it ...

The story of the Tower of Babel is one of the most well-known tales in the Bible. It tells of a time when humanity, speaking ...

The artifact comes from a Predynastic cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, specifically Grave 3932 (an adult male burial). It measures about 63 mm long and weighs roughly 1.5 grams, so small it was easy ...

An international team of researchers has established that a small and long-forgotten copper alloy tool, excavated a century ...

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...

Formal education in Africa begins early and decisively in Ancient Egypt. By the third millennium BCE, Egypt maintained ...

An ancient Christian monastic complex was recently uncovered in Egypt — shedding new light on monastic life in Upper Egypt during the Byzantine era. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

new video loaded: Displaced Palestinians in Egypt Await Reopening of Gaza Border transcript This is 9-year-old Islam Al Farany. Two years ago, Islam’s life changed when his relative’s home was hit in ...

There’s a team of ceramicists hard at work on slab and wheel, plus five men who sit listening to a tinny radio as they carve chunks of alabaster into rounded, tactile vases and lampshades. One of them ...