Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 ...

To ease overcrowding caused by decades of high birth rates, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi is building a series of ambitious ...

Hundreds of boats laden with luxuries sailed from India to Egypt every year. At Palmyra (an ancient city in what’s now Syria) in the second century CE, an inscription shows 90 million sesterces ...

These are wooden sailing vessels like the one fictional detective Hercule Poirot sailed on Death On The Nile. This is a ...

Maybe, for now, it’s just the questions you write down. No answers at all. Maybe, over time, answers begin to come.

Some 400km south of Cairo and its symbolic Pyramids, El Gouna is an infant in Egyptian terms, a 30-year-old town on the shores of the Red Sea, full of man-made lagoons that swirl through ...

The Saudi Pro League remains confident that Mohamed Salah is still considering joining them this summer. However, it is ...

with twisting alleyways and ancient churches that are several centuries older than the ornate mosques of Islamic Cairo. According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt ...

In 51 BC, 18-year-old Cleopatra emerged onto the political scene as co-regent of Egypt with her younger brother and (in ... when Antony decided he needed money to subdue his enemies in the Parthian ...