Evidence of hallucinogens was found in an ancient Egyptian mug, confirming written records and myths about Egyptian rituals ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Researchers found psychotropic substances, alcohol, and saliva in a vessel shaped like Bes, an Egyptian god of childbirth and ...

The EFG London Jazz Festival features Middle Eastern women musicians, like Suna Alan, Amena, Melike Sahin, and Yazz Ahmed, who mix jazz with their culture ...

Back home, I plan to share my story with my community. Misconceptions often shape the judgments we make about others. By ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

Around the same time, Saudi Arabia was explaining to Western oil workers why the long list of lifestyle rules for foreigners, as in no non-Moslem houses of worship, restrictions on the dress and ...

BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.

He began working as a security guard at the Met in 2009 and continued making sculptures inspired by his Egyptian heritage. He ...

Talks at the United Nations climate summit in Azerbaijan this week stalled as representatives from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia ...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former ...

Another common misconception about ancient Egypt thanks to Hollywood is that all Egyptians were mummified and placed in ...