All posts tagged "Egypt’s history"

Beauty and brains was Hypatia – the last Alexandrian scholar at the ancient University of Alexandria. To...

Mornings are riper in Aleppo; vibrant with the afterglow of victory. Baybars basks in it, but remains...

There’s a nook in every home: it’s sparsely lit, with colorful boxes stacked together in an odd...

An archive of knowledge said to be so expansive, so awe-worthy, that upon its ruin the Queen...

Granite catches the light and a felaha looks across the Cairo University Bridge. She is one of...

When the word library comes to mind, several images rise alongside it: commanding structures, brooding masterpieces of...

Guarding the coast, bathed in sun-scarring and salt, stood one of Egypt’s most daunting structures: the Pharos...

A melancholy tune rises from the riverbed, sweetened by personal grief; it is the mark of El...

No great language can ever truly be forgotten – or rather, not completely. Egypt is a spirited...

Symbolism is the only mutual language which remains between ancient Egypt and the modern world; the eye...

Egyptian archeologists discovered an old kingdom tomb of 5th Dynasty top official, Hetpet, as part of an Egyptian...