The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

M zilikazi is the only warrior whose forces defeated Shaka’s in battle. Many consider him the greatest Southern African ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

Have you ever thought that toilets are one of the most essential parts of our lives? Several notable figures like the great ...

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis. While ...

Linseed oil may be the oldest wood finish known to man, with evidence of linseed oil finishes being applied to wood as far back as ancient Egypt.

The package combines an AFD soft loan with an EU grant and forms part of the Sustainable Green Industries Programme.

Astronomers have studied two sources created in Cairo in the Middle Ages: the poem by Ibn Sana al-Mulk, dedicated to the famous Sultan Saladin and dated 1181-1182, as well as the chronicle of the ...

If you hold a sheet of paper up to the light, it looks almost weightless — thin, soft, and easy to tear. Yet this simple ...

Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but they have all been distant ...

The next step seems to be to use electric vehicles instead of gasoline or diesel engines. Although public transportation has ...

From the ninth to the first centuries BC, in the period before the Roman empire, Etruscan culture flourished in present-day ...