The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

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Picture a country where pharaohs once ruled, and billion-dollar smart cities rise from desert sands. Egypt isn’t just about ...

For over a century, scholars debated whether the cones depicted on the heads of ancient Egyptians in tomb reliefs were symbolic or real objects. Excavations at Amarna finally revealed two cones ...

The world’s first lock and key system was invented in ancient Egypt around 4000 BCE. Made of wood, it used simple pins and bolts to secure doors, a design that still influences modern locks today.

Researchers have found that domestic cats “did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers [in West Asia]” as earlier ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, god of abundance and fertility. THE PERFECT AMOUNTEgyptians needed the ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

Your cat is not just acting royal, it actually is. New DNA proof shows today’s cats are direct descendants of Pharaonic Egypt ...

The practice dates to ancient Egypt and Rome, where hieroglyphs from 1400 B.C. depict espaliered fig trees to maximize fruit ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Underwater archaeologists have made an “extremely exciting” find, uncovering the remains of an ancient Egyptian pleasure ...