The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...
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At the Cotton Museum in Cairo, a dusty brutalist edifice in Dokki on the west bank of the Nile, one learns of the origins of Egypt’s many fibre varieties since 1818. A helpful chart gives the ...
Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on Friday. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that both Israel and Hamas had "signed off" on the first phase of a peace plan in Gaza ...
CAIRO — World-renowned Chinese pianist Lang Lang opened the first edition of The Pyramids Echo (TPE) festival in Egypt on the ...
Kazakh singer and composer, Dimash Qudaibergen performs during the closing of the Pyramids Echo festival at the historical ...
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 ...
Picture a country where pharaohs once ruled, and billion-dollar smart cities rise from desert sands. Egypt isn’t just about ...
Cairo’s bustling streets tell countless stories, yet too many tourists find themselves starring in the wrong kind of tale.
At the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza, Portuguese artist Vhils presents ‘Doors of Cairo’ – an installation ...