A team of researchers is creating the first digitized archive of manuscripts from St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. The aim is to preserve the heritage housed in ...

The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

The ancient Nabataeans were well known for their hydraulic system, water storage and irrigation in a very arid area of Petra ...

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi honoured the Sinai militia fighter Ibrahim Hammad as a “martyr” on Tuesday despite calls by rights groups to investigate war crimes allegations against him.

Egyptian officials have accused Israel of stoking tensions by falsely claiming that troop movements in northern Sinai are in breach of the peace treaty between the countries. Israeli and ...

Following notes written by an English traveler in the early 19th century and two French pilots in the 1950s, Pierre Tallet made a stunning discovery: a set of 30 caves honeycombed into limestone ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains ... The ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic ...