Until recently, the prevailing theory proposed that the bacterium responsible for the plague— Yersinia pestis —had emerged from an animal reservoir in East Africa and then reached the Mediterranean ...

In an instance of form following content, Joseph Mallord William Turner's "The Fifth Plague of Egypt" was recently exiled from its home at the Indianapolis Museum of Art for the exhibit "J.M.W ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

Egypt is approaching the final stages of talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to complete the fifth review under its $8 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement, according to sources ...

The study's researchers stated: "This is the first reported prehistoric Y pestis genome outside Eurasia providing molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt, although we cannot ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death was around ...

Egypt ’s New Administrative Capital, located in the heart of the desert just 45km (28 miles) east of the capital Cairo, is taking shape, with China at the centre of its construction, operation ...

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The march puts Egypt in an awkward position as it tries to balance its ties with Israel and the United States against its public condemnation of the war’s brutal toll on Gaza’s civilians.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have said their fighters have seized a strategic zone on the border with Egypt and Libya, as the regular government-aligned army, the Sudanese ...