The significance of the blue lotus was confirmed in 1922 when Howard Carter found blue lotus petals covering the body of ...

In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke ...

One morning in Amarna, a village in Upper Egypt about 200 miles south of Cairo, a set of delicate, sparrowlike bones were arranged atop a wooden table. “The clavicle is here, and the upper arm ...

As efforts failed to dislodge it, the Ever Given became a symbol of Covid-era anxiety as the pandemic entered its second year ...

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El ...