Kirsty Masterman discovers a wealth of history – and Cairo’s famous street food – in the Egyptian capital.

History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exciting flights of fancy that can range from the innocent to outright conspiracies. Nobody truly believes that the ...

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids. In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, ...

Egyptology has been framed in the public mind, and remains to be, a sort of narnia-esque escapade of fantasy and ...

It’s not every day that archaeologists stumble upon a 4,000-year-old pyramid, let alone one that’s been sealed since antiquity. But in the heart of Egypt’s ancient royal necropolis of Dahshur, that’s ...

In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...