In Egypt, caricature was a state mouthpiece, a rebel sketch and a social critic. It swayed crowds, shaped satire, and slipped ...

Widening demonstrations sparked by Iran's ailing economy spread Thursday into the Islamic Republic's rural provinces, with at ...

The Indomitable Lions, Bafana Bafana and the Super Eagles have all been competing at the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of ...

‘I want, I want” is William Blake’s 1793 philosophical cartoon showing a child reaching the moon not via a spaceship but a ladder. T. S. Eliot said Blake’s engraving, the size of a playing card, ...

The Cairo Declaration of 1943, jointly issued by Allied leaders, clearly states that all the territories Japan stole from China, such as Northeast China, Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, should be ...

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A new radiocarbon study of museum artefacts linked to King Ahmose suggests Egypt’s New Kingdom began later than long believed, extending the chaotic Second Intermediate Period. By directly comparing ...

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Cairo — Egypt's government hosted dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries on Saturday as it held an official opening ceremony for the Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion project decades in the ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new secrets from the Old Kingdom. This facial reconstruction of an ancient ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...