Apollo Art Auctions is pleased to announce its Ancient Art & Antiquities February e-sale, a two-day online event featuring a ...

House martins may find his 17th-century North Yorkshire house sufficiently des res, but to nurture the swifts, barn owls and ...

Magic was a part of everyday life for the ancient Egyptians. They believed that dark powers were everywhere and that they ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

Native to Africa, Iraq and Yemen, a pair of sacred ibis were brought to France from Egypt in the 1700s. A century later, the bird species was spotted in the wild in Austria and Italy. In France ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations. The first ...

A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) has been found in South Eastern Egypt, the first recorded instance of the creature in this region for thousands of years. The lone individual was caught and ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. It happened in ...

Regarded as being sacred by early Egyptians, this native goose of the African continent was introduced into Europe and elsewhere as an ornamental wildfowl species in the late seventeenth and ...

The Egyptian Vulture is a striking bird with predominantly white plumage contrasted by black flight feathers. Its wedge-shaped tail and bare, yellow face with a slender, hooked bill are distinctive ...

The Egyptian pound exchange rate against the US dollar maintained its place above the EGP 50 mark on February 2nd, with the USD rates at Banque Misr recording EGP 50.17 for buying and EGP 50.27 for ...

The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Canada in 2021 was just the catalyst for “Sugarcane." Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, the filmmakers ...