"The true cost of this loss extends far beyond bricks and mortar." Ancient city once home to Cleopatra is disappearing at an ...

One of these things is to do with anytime some academic type puts an oil painting in an X-ray machine or something like that ...

This stunning seaside city is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast and once stood as Egypt's capital city for almost a ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, a great library burned. It was said by some to have held upwards of half a million ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

The famous Citadel of Qaitbay, built on the ruins of the ancient Pharos lighthouse, is now threatened by rising waters and ...

SA nuclear advocate visited Egypt's El Dabaa nuclear power plant construction site, set to be Africa's second commercial nuclear facility and larger than Koeberg.

Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Many important ancient Greek women—poets, philosophers, and leaders— defied norms and shaped history for generations.