Waterpower may have given a big lift to builders of Egypt’s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. Ancient architects built a hydraulic system for hoisting ...

An Indian tourist views the city during their tour on a hot air balloon on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor, Egypt, ...

The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient individuals, most of the man’s ancestry best matches ...

Primatologists are using genetic analysis to determine the geographic origin of ancient mummified baboons found in Egypt. The team finds evidence that the two legendary trading regions of Punt and ...

CAIRO, April 20 (Reuters) - A unit of Italian cement firm Italcementi will build Egypt's first privately owned wind farm, government and company officials said, part of the country's push to boost ...

A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A total of 32 companies have presented bids for a tender to build a 250-megawatt wind farm on Egypt's east coast, the state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. Egypt had announced ...