The New Kingdom is probably the best-known period in Ancient Egypt because we have all those ... This is known in the map as the Triangle. This area is empty-- no one really ever excavated it.

Old Inscription Reveals ‘Guide to the Afterlife’, Map Found at Ancient Egyptian Burial Site Egyptians had various beliefs ...

This is the adorable moment a beluga whale plays with two children on their visit to Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Guangdong, ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom ... pupils a map of Alexander’s travels. “My jaw fell open, hit the desk, and I went home ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt ... out from his kingdom of Macedon ...

Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a ...

The tour visits imperial cities, including heady Marrakesh and the oft-overlooked Rabat, now emerging as a hip alternative.

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852 ? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

We sit down for a coffee with veteran Sudanese-British broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, who discusses the value of history and the ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...