Sham El-Nessim traces its origins to Shemu, an ancient Egyptian harvest festival celebrating the life-giving Nile flood and the rebirth of the land. Hieroglyphs from 2,700 BCE depict offerings of fish ...

Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876 – Now was on view at The Metropolitan Musuem on Fifth Avenue, in New York City from ...

I wonder why our media pays so little attention to the success stories of Egyptians abroad.

The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how they conceived of the universe through the astronomical objects and ...

“Treasures of Czechia”, an exhibition on Czechia’s UNESCO heritage. Czech artist Markéta Zlesáková displays her unique work inspired by Czech folk ornamentation and Arabic calligraphy and ornament.

Six foods that symbolize the journey of the Jews out of slavery in ancient Egypt. Eight days over which we eat matzo rather than leavened bread. Ten plagues that passed over the Israelites ...

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Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

A press release described the findings as “groundbreaking,” and if proven true, could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt. However, independent experts have raised serious concerns about the study. A ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the last known inscription written in the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, inscribed on Hadrian’s Gate in AD 394, Philae, Egypt. Credit: Following Hadrian. CC BY 2.0/flickr ...

Beneath the Pyramid of Khafre, could there be an ancient underground city? An Italian research team claims to have detected massive structures—spiral staircases, mysterious chambers, and even the ...