What 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat tells us about the genetics of our daily bread

Researchers sequenced the genome of a 3,000-year-old sample of Egyptian emmer wheat; Comparisons with modern samples suggest a story of how the …

Kitchen uprising

TV>> Women Empowerment • Egypt

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Website>> Cartoons • Egypt

History burnt

History>> Fire • Egypt

It's curtains on sound and light

Changing notions

Who were the first people to use the alphabet? Semitic people of Egypt, says a fresh discovery

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Environmental change may have played a role at the dawn of Egyptian history — here’s how

As the environment changed, the Nile Delta gradually became much less rich in wild food resources

Miniature mammoths

Smaller version of mammoths may have inhabited Egypt long after they were thought to have become extinct

Pyramids in peril

Much ado over the Nile

Pyramid times

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Ecology of violence

Violence in Sinai can be explained in its remoteness from Egypt’s power centers. Its desert ecology, mountain covers, and a long coastline …

The drought food

The ker plant signifies drought to people in the desert. It also provides food to survive on

All house cats have a common origin in the Fertile Crescent, says study

Cats were domesticated in the Near East around 10,000 years ago, when humans transitioned to sedentary farming from hunting-gathering  

‘Selous Game Reserve dam rooted in geopolitics over Nile’

Conservationist Mordecai Ogada says the decision to build a $3 billion dam on the Rufiji river that flows through the protected area is an …

Ecology becomes integral part of state policy

With pollution threatening to smother Egypt, environmental planning is becoming central to the country's economic policies

How did the Red Sea part in Exodus? Medicane, storm surge, Rossby waves, suggests UK study

Whether a miraculous act of God or due to some of the unlikely, coincidental phenomena discussed in this paper, the chance of ‘parting’…

Vindicated after 3 years

Journal>> Libel ÔÇó the UK/Egypt