An Egyptian activist locked his country’s embassy in The Hague to symbolise the closure of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.

"These figures suggest that a massive winged sun disk was originally mounted above the relief," explains Aaron Schmitt. In the coming months, the research team will analyze the depiction and its ...

Three centuries after horse-drawn chariots were introduced to Scandinavia, a Bronze Age artisan crafted the Sun Chariot, a stunningly detailed object that may represent an ancient mythological ...

A US judge halts the deportation of the Egyptian family of the Boulder firebombing suspect The family of suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, have not been charged in the attack.

The gods are flanked by fish and scorpion deities. The presence of the latter figures suggest a “massive winged sun disk was originally mounted above the relief,” Schmitt says in the statement.

“These figures suggest that a massive winged sun disk was originally mounted above the relief,” Dr Schmitt said.

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said.

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...