The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

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

Great bustards are listed as endangered worldwide by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and are found ...

a synthesis of different Egyptian beliefs about death, resurrection and kingship. The modern name comes from a Greek version of the ancient Egyptian name Abedju. The size of the 3,600-year-old ...

In Egypt, regional churches and other denominations have offered their condolences to the Vatican following the death of Pope ...

Like many feminist artists, she took the body as her subject. But while others were exploring their own bodies, she painted ...

Then something compelled him to start all over again. He decided to take up Arabic amid the ruins of Egypt. ‘Nothing changes in Cairo,’ an editor told him. ‘I liked the sound of that,’ Hessler writes.

Read on to discover more. While Cleopatra may have been born in Egypt, her family origins can be traced back to Ptolemy I Soter of Macedonian Greece, one of Alexander the Great’s generals. Following ...

CAIRO, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a building collapse in central Egypt's Asyut province rose to nine on Wednesday. "Eight of the victims were females, including a six-month-old baby girl, ...

But more than a century later, a researcher has presented a new theory about the clay artifacts: They were part of a funerary ritual dedicated to Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.

Cairo police revealed the details behind a German tourist falling to his death from the 30th floor of a famous hotel in downtown Cairo. The victim, 87 years old, lost his balance and fell from a great ...

(April 2) Val Kilmer poses for a portrait, Jan. 9, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File) Val Kilmer poses for a portrait in New York, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles ...