In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

LONDON — For the first time, scientists have successfully decoded the complete genome of an ancient Egyptian who lived nearly 5,000 years ago. The results from this single individual challenge ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Were the ancient Coast Salish farmers? Conventional anthropological wisdom asserts that the ethnographically known communities of the ...

The ancient Egyptians started the first farmers market along the Nile 5,000 years ago. Today there are over 8,000 of these ...

For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, his basket has felt lighter and the once ...

Khaled DESOUKI/AFP/AFP For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, his basket has ...