Samar Nour's Asha, the Scarab and the Moon ventures into the heart of Nubian folklore, collective memory, and feminist ...

Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

When Sabrine El Hossam, one of Egypt’s leading percussionists, talks about Nubia, she doesn’t start with monuments or mythology. The multidisciplinary artist talks about the southern Egyptian region’s ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza might get all the headlines, but it wasn't humanity’s first monumental effort. Long before pharaohs were stacking limestone in Egypt, people across the world were carving ...

Randa Al-Menshawi, replacing Sherif Al-Sherbini, has served as first assistant to the prime minister since 2019. She is regarded as one of the most prominent executive leaders responsible for ...

Egypt did not learn how to name a people by one word at once; it learned to give names to people by worship, and subsequently by name. That change cut into stone by pharaohs, not historians–is the ...

After three months of pressing Sudan's army-controlled government, Scripps News became the first American media outlet ...

Genndy Tartakovsky defies our short attention spans with the quiet tale of a lost soul seeking the ones he loves ...

The Sahara may look empty, but its harsh climate, vanishing water, shifting sands, and turbulent history explain why life there is so rare and why this vast desert remains one of the most unique ...

From hands-on classes and after-hours parties to shopping, dining, and even a pop-up sauna, here’s how to experience Philly museums in new ways.

After using the "Relative Erosion Method" to uncover how old the Great Pyramid of Giza is, Alberto Donini suggests it may date to 22916 B.C.E.

Some cities celebrate Valentine’s Day. Cairo stretches it into a season. Across February, the city offers everything from ...