When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host its grand opening on July 3, ...

As Egypt’s new Grand Museum opens for the first time, a luxurious voyage along the Nile reveals a compelling story of the ...

I was drawn to the outskirts of Cairo by the colossal complex in the desert — a towering site that arose over decades, built ...

Imposing statues of rams and lions used to stand in the grounds of Sudan's National Museum - priceless artefacts from the ...

Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.

Forget Howard Carter. The polymath Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was the greatest Egyptologist and is rightly deemed ...

News24 Multimedia editor Nokuthula Manyathi recently spent some time in Zurich, Switzerland. She decided to see how much of the capital she could soak up in one day for R2 000 (or just under 100 euros ...

THE first time we thought about a family holiday here, the government slapped a no-fly zone on them back in 2015. And a decade on, getting to this stunning resort at the south end of the Sinai ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...