All posts tagged "history"

Astrology and the Zodiac are often associated with flowery magazine columns and teenager obsessions, however, unbeknownst to...

Next to the three largest ancient pyramids of Giza, Japan’s International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is financing the...

Christian art is often associated with Western imagery, yet it isn’t much acknowledged that Eastern forms of...

A month on from the killing of George Floyd – an innocent Black man – at the...

  Renowned Egyptian writer Dr. Reem Bassiouney was awarded the 2019/2020 Naguib Mahfouz Award for the best Egyptian...

One of the definite drawbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic is that various cultural and historical landmarks are...

According to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt’s first pyramid and the first stone pyramid in...

He had neither the charismatic smile of Gamal Abdel Nasser nor the attitude of Anwar el Sadat,...

“What is history and what is our perception of it?” was one of the questions multi-disciplinary conceptual...

When visiting Luxor, the average traveler is spoiled for choice. However, one attractive and evident site to...

Due to its rich archeological history, Egypt is well-known as a home to various colossi statues depicting...

  Last Friday, Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry began moving four of the sphinxes in Luxor’s Karnak Temple to...

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted during the January 25 revolution in 2011, made a...

Across time, Tahrir square has been at the heart of all the political transformations that Cairo has...

The King Tutankhamun exhibition at Paris’s Grande Halle La Villette broke the record as the most visited...

The Egyptian pound or ‘gineh’ – abbreviated as LE or EGP – crosses counters and circulates through...

Just over 10 years ago, International Beer Day was inaugurated in Santa Cruz as a day-long celebratory...