Lucie Duff Gordon (1821–1869) was a translator and travel writer. Forced to leave England in 1851 due to tuberculosis, she went first to South Africa and then to Egypt. Her letters home were published ...

The term Egyptian cotton gets thrown around a lot as shorthand for very fancy sheets, but not all Egyptian cotton is created equal. Some sheets made from Egyptian cotton will be certified as such ...

archaeologists have now found letters handwritten 1,900 years ago by Roman centurions stationed nearby. Though Rome ...

Travel back in time thousands of year to the banks of the Nile, where you can learn all about the amazing people and places of Ancient Egypt. What remains of Ancient Egypt? How do we know so much ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art previews its new exhibit, "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now" ...

The artifacts discovered inside a tomb of 11 Egyptian burials from the height of the country’s Middle Kingdom offer a fresh perspective on the funerary practices from the 12 th and 13 th ...

Egypt has joined a letter addressed to the United Nations to urge for imposing a ban on the export of weapons to Israel that could be used against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian ...

CAIRO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Egypt opened a series of galleries to the public on Tuesday in its flagship new museum, but the glittering King Tutankhamun collection and solar boats buried by the ...