Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt Luxor skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a luminous stone once cherished by pharaohs - ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 27 (Xinhua ... replicas of iconic figures like Tutankhamun and Hatshepsut. Though alabaster carving once faced decline, it now enjoys a resurgence fueled by younger generations ...

A joint French-Egyptian team found the carvings underwater south of Aswan ... told Live Science that Aswan was an important quarry site for granite and it is possible that the newly found remains ...

Alexandria is a city in northern Egypt on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the second largest city in Egypt and is the largest city on the coast of the Mediterranean. It is named after ...

Zahi Hawass describes some of the private tombs of the Old Kingdom, built in the expectation of continuing needs in the ...

Borglum declared, 'America will march along that skyline,' envisioning a tribute that might rival the pyramids of Egypt ... Jefferson's initial carving was found to rest on unsuitable granite ...

Oldest Recorded Solar Eclipse Occurred 3,200 Years Ago, Academicians Figure Out Using Biblical Texts A group of British researchers in 2017 announced the date of the earliest recorded solar eclipse by ...

When we talk about marking the landscape as an act of remembrance, we are referring to walking in the footsteps of the people and events that happened in that specific location decades, centuries, and ...

Its towering sandstone and granite cliffs, natural arches ... Many critically endangered animal species native to the region, such as Egyptian vultures, Nubian ibex, striped hyenas and Syrian wolves, ...