On the criteria that matter to medicine—not later industrial power— Africa led . Medicine does not exist in isolation. It depends on cities, sanitation, governance, and trade. Africa’s medical ...
Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...
Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...
The Sphinx sits right next to a pharaoh’s pyramid complex, which makes many historians think it was built to watch over his ...
An increasing number of jewelry designers have been incorporating ancient artifacts into contemporary designs, producing the kind of distinctive creations that people crave today. While the practice ...
Sudan civil war reportedly kills 150,000 people and displaces 13 million as Christians face daily terror. Government forces ...
The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...
EgyptAir’s CEO Captain Ahmed Adel shares how the airline’s new A350s and brand-new terminal in Cairo is helping transform the Egyptian flag carrier ...
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...
The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...
Senegal prepared perfectly for the FIFA World Cup 2026 by lifting the African title in a tournament contested by seven continental qualifiers.