A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

The 22nd edition of Sharjah Heritage Days was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme ...

More than 6 million Syrians fled their homeland during that country’s almost 14-year-long civil war. Other nations took them in. It was the humanitarian thing to do.

It was heartbreaking and grotesque. Other hostages are reported by The Times to have spent their captivity bound, tortured, ...

Biblical teaching generally pushes Christians to advocate for submission to authorities, whether in politics or in the church ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

H.H. Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Chairman of the Sharjah Media Council, attended the ceremony to honour the winners of the Shams Awards for Arabic Content ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

The pace of the declared crackdown on waste and corruption, which has already seen the first layoffs just weeks after rebels toppled Assad on Dec 8, has triggered protests from government workers ...

Many of them – particularly those in Asia and Africa – also turned to citizenship laws to send their former rulers a message. However, in most cases these countries turned toward a different ...