Superheroes are a ubiquitous part of the global culture. Anywhere you go on this beautiful planet there is a pretty good chance you will spot a little kid with a Spider-Man backpack. No matter what language theyâre speaking or what race they are, they share the same myths of men and women in funny outfits selflesslyâŚ
Itâs been quite the month for Indiana Jones-inspired madness, after a sealed 2,000-year-old sarcophagus was discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, on July 1. Nobody knew what was inside, but some feared that the black granite coffin might be cursed. Those fears were put to rest on Thursday, when the sarcophagus was finallyâŚ
Ride hailing service Uber and competitor Careem will not be banned in Egypt after a court overturned a judicial decision to pull the companiesâ licenses, allowing both companies to continue operations there for the time being.
In his time as president, weâve come to expect the daily parade of horrors Donald Trump spews into the world through Twitter. And yet he still managed to shock the nation this morning by spreading a disturbing video that depicts teenagers being thrown from a roof and beaten, one of three clips to appear on his accountâŚ
Once a crowded holiday resort town, Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is now hauntingly empty. Before the Arab Spring in 2011, about 15 million tourists visited the North African country each year. But after several terrorist attacks major airlines suspended flights and foreign offices around the world warned of terroristâŚ
All over the world street artists have become famous by surreptitiously adding swabs of paint or wheatpaste to city walls. But the most remarkable thing about a new mural in Cairo is not only its sizeâit covers about 50 buildingsâitâs that the artist managed to do it in a place thatâs not known for encouragingâŚ
18 year old German tourist Andrej Ciesielski got a view that few people get to see - Egypt from the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Itâs an illegal climb, and he was caught by police when he reached the bottom.
Last year, it came to light that the blue and gold braided beard on King Tutâs burial mask was knocked off during a botched cleaning attempt then hastily glued back on using epoxy. Now, Egyptâs decided that more than just poor Tutâs head must roll over the debacle.
As the fifth anniversary of Egyptâs 2011 uprising approaches, Egyptian officials have arrested the administrators of 47 Facebook pages that are run by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Facebookâs âFree Basicsâ program in Egypt has been shut down, according to Facebook. Itâs unclear why the new free internet service stopped working. However, the news arrives a week after the Indian government temporarily banned the program in the wake of ongoing net neutrality concerns.
Well, that didnât take long. Only a few weeks after a team of scientists began a project using novel scanning techniques to analyze Egyptâs major pyramids, theyâve discovered strange temperature anomaliesâbut itâs still unclear whatâs causing them.
In the next ten years, Earthâs population is expected to increase by one billion, and only 3% of our planetâs water is fit for drinking or farming. Most of that relatively small amount is trapped in frozen glaciers. But Egyptian researchers have developed a way of removing the salt out of sea water for our growingâŚ
Everybody loves spooky creatures and weird apparitionsâbut a new book about a mummified cat, called appropriately Mummy Cat, is especially wonderful. Writer Marcus Ewert and artist Lisa Brown have created a lovely childrenâs book about a cat who comes back every 100 years.
For centuries, humans have placed way too much importance on people playing fictional characters on stage. And when youâve done that for as long as we have, things are bound to get weird occasionally. Here are five of the strangest stories from the history of theater.
1,100,000 units of housing. 6,200 miles of boulevards. 2,000 schools. $45 billion dollars. Egypt is planning a sparkling new capital outside of Cairo, and it wants to do it fast.
Egypt, a country in the grips of a severe housing crisis, announced a glitzy new development this weekâand it's a throwback either to Vegas or to ancient Egypt. Or maybe a little bit of both.
Egyptian mythology has a lot of gods. Some of them have loomed large in pop culture and the public imagination: Ra, Apophis, Anubis, Isis, Bast, Osiris, etc. Some are far more obscure. But that in no way diminishes how scary they are. Here are 10 absolutely terrifying Egyptian gods that you might not have heard of.
Czech archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a previously unknown queen. Named Khentakawess III, she is thought to have been the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre who reigned 4,500 years ago.
A team of archaeologists from Brigham Young University in Utah have had their excavation license revoked by the Egyptian Antiquities Ministry after claiming to have discovered "one million mummies."
