Tomorrow, the National Theatre will honor Salah Jaheen on his birth anniversary with “Jaheen… Egypt’s Laughter”, a storytelling and musical tribute. Jaheen was a poet, lyricist, screenwriter, and ...

The pantheon of Egyptian gods is filled with mighty human-animal hybrid deities such as Horus, the falcon-headed god of kingship; Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification; and the warrior ...

And yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of duty, the sabres of doom.Gathered like pearls in their alien gravesSilent they sleep by the Persian ...

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

And yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of duty, the sabres of doom.Gathered like pearls in their alien ...

Koshary – a spicy dish of lentils, rice and pasta available at countless Egyptian food stalls – won recognition as a cultural treasure from the U.N.'s cultural agency on Wednesday, as Cairo makes a ...

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A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Centuries-old Marathi stories reveal that India’s savannas have existed much longer than commonly believed, challenging assumptions that they are degraded former forests. Credit: Shutterstock Medieval ...

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 ...