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 ...

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 ...

Nora doesn’t have the name recognition—or crowds—of Pompeii. But the well-preserved coastal settlement offers travelers a ...

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

New research shows Karnak Temple rose from an island created by the Nile, reshaping ideas about its origins. The site’s ...

An international study investigating the genomic diversity of the Sudanese population reveals that the Copts originating in Egypt –who settled in the country between the seventh and eleventh centuries ...

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

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.

A survey of rock art in Wadi Khamila conducted by Mustafa Nour El-Din of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Ludwig Morenz of the University of Bonn revealed a 5,000-year-old ...

The mid-year holiday season has already started, kicking off with activities for adults and children alike, writes ...

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 ...