You can, however, expect to meet some crocodiles on your Nile voyage. Most itineraries stop at Kom Ombo, a town 50km upriver ...

Photo by Khalid al BusaidiLast weekend at the Royal Opera House Muscat, audiences were whisked away into an enchanting world ...

History is an invisible teacher. It teaches the experience of the past to the inexperienced people of the present with a view to guarding them towards a safe future. Some people perceive history as ...

The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

Museum officials said the bread is “believed to be up to 3,000 years old.” It’s unclear who collected the sample, when they ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

A tiny Ancient Egyptian artefact has been discovered in a UK city it is believed to be around 3,000 years old and originally ...