The ancient Ho-Chunk, who also inhabited modern-day Illinois and elsewhere, then turned to the arrow-straight elm, despite its unyielding, hardwood structure. Similar patterns follow after ...

A second lineage, consisting of African cats that dominated Egypt, spread into the Mediterranean ... probably began carrying their cats along ancient land and sea trade routes to control rodents.

Mohenjo-Daro was one of two prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley civilization ... equal in power to Mesopotamia and Egypt, reigned between about 2500 B.C. and 1700 B.C. in what is now ...

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ISTANBUL (RNS) — As news filtered out of Egypt on Thursday (May 29) that a court ruling had called for nationalizing an ancient Orthodox ... Prophet Muhammed, is a symbol of interfaith tolerance ...

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Egypt is a place filled with mystery, history, and tourists. The people are there for a good reason, too. Who doesn’t want to take in the ancient pyramids in person? Built in a period before modern ...

Egypt marked International Museum Day ... language teaching board and a funerary stele with the Ankh cross (Coptic Museum), an ancient inscription in thuluth calligraphy, a folio from the Kitab ...

In a 2017 study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers looked at the ancient DNA of five Canaanites who lived between 3,650 and 3,750 years ago and who were buried in Sidon, an ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back ... near the Egyptian city of Ismailia and the Suez Canal. Described as one of Egypt's "important strategic locations," Tell Abu Sefeh emerged as ...