The Israeli-Egyptian accords are the closest the Mideast conflict ever came to peace, and the Panama Canal treaties avoided ...
Kamal’s dictionary was completed 100 years ago, earning him the title Pasha, awarded by King Fouad. However, he died shortly ...
The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" and "chief dentist" Sonja Anderson Piece by piece, experts carefully ...
Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...
namely “agan,” which means ‘very much,’ and “anir,” meaning ‘man,’ according to Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English dictionary. Ultimately, Agenor’s family was believed to be Greek in origin. Agenor ...
The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, where many examples of ancient cat imagery are on display ...
Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...
Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, the country’s interior ministry said in a Monday statement.
Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...
Solar alignment at the temple in Karnak, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Egypt) The Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt offered a dazzling spectacle as the rising sun aligned perfectly ...
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Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...