The source of the Nile has been sought after for millennia to no avail. But today I take a look at where this question comes ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

As Egypt’s new Grand Museum opens for the first time, a luxurious voyage along the Nile reveals a compelling story of the ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Workers package salted fish at a factory in Port Said, Egypt, on April 19, 2025. As dawn breaks on Orthodox Easter Monday, ...

As dawn breaks on Orthodox Easter Monday, Egyptians of all faiths gather in parks, on balconies, and along riverbanks, ...

Egyptians may have harnessed hydraulic power not only for agriculture and transport but also for building pyramids. This ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The Nubian people, indigenous to southern Egypt and northern Sudan, have a unique heritage characterized by distinct ...

When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

Some 100 major temples towered over the landscape of Roman Egypt, though today only six ... goddess of the annual Nile flood. Orion and Sothis also appear in the pronaos’ southernmost ceiling ...

MUMMIFICATION of sacred animals is a familiar practice in the annals of Ancient Egypt, especially in the ... on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, by an expedition of the Metropolitan Museum ...