Yet scattered across the pages of history are remarkable societies that flourished ... The Kingdom of Yam was a wealthy trading civilization mentioned in Egyptian texts, located somewhere in ...

Did you know the Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the biggest and oldest statues in the world? It’s about 66 feet tall and 240 ...

In his effort to tackle issues of culture, modernity, and Islam, Salama offers a significant contribution to the intellectual history of Egypt.' Muhsin al-Musawi - Columbia University 'Islam and the ...

Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.

By Malak Khaled People have always been fascinated with Ancient Egypt, a civilization that existed thousands of years ago and ...

Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world, ranking as the fifth most widely used, with over 400 million native ...

The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern English ... written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of history. This is in contrast ...