This year’s broader interest in the beginning of the ancient Egyptian new year testifies to continuing questions of identity, novelist Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid tells Ahram Weekly “I was sitting in ...

For more than two millennia, Heliopolis was the center of Egyptian religion.(Courtesy Dietrich Raue and Aiman Ashmawy/The Heliopolis Project) As geographical guides, creation myths can be ...

Egypt’s antiquities ministry insisted on Thursday that Cleopatra had “white skin and Hellenistic characteristics” in an ongoing row over a Netflix drama-documentary depicting the famed ...

The Egyptian cobra, known for its ancient Egyptian iconography, is a venomous snake measuring up to 2.4 meters. Found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, it displays a defensive hood when ...