The nine include distinguished ancient Egyptian objects and a Ptolemaic-era coin. All recovered artefacts will be handed over to the Egyptian Consulate in New York within days in order to make ...

Egypt has played a major role in the brokering of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group which rules Gaza, after 11 days of conflict erupted on 10 May. More than 250 Palestinians ...

Ancestor worship was important and similar to the Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath the floors ...

Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.

Jake Wood cited concerns about humanitarian principles like neutrality. The NGO, backed by the U.S. and Israel, said it would go ahead with aid delivery on Monday. The president promised to ease ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. If there is lots of rainfall, or snow or ice melting, rivers sometimes rise over the top of their banks and begin to ...

Destroyed bridges, blackouts, empty water stations and looted hospitals across Sudan bear witness to the devastating impact on infrastructure from two years of war.