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After Years of Delays, Egypt’s Most Ambitious Museum Project Finally Opens This Year—Here’s a Look Inside
Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...
Special report: Turki Al-Sheikh and the two sides of boxing’s new king
Turki Al-Sheikh has risen from obscurity to the heart of two historic institutions, but who is he really? We spent six months ...
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Archaeologists found another Egyptian royal tomb—but who does it belong to?
This was the end of the Second Intermediate Period—“a very murky period” in Egyptian history, when many kings survived only a few years after taking the throne, Wegner says. The Nile Delta ...
Philly’s own ‘Temple of Doom’ has fossils in the floors, stars in the ceiling, and an Egyptian room
As I entered the Masonic Temple in Center City and walked between two sphinx statues guarding the entryway staircase, and ...
Francis, the simple pope from the end of the world who broke the mold and opened the Church as never before
Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s life in Argentina was marked by challenges that prepared him for his election in an unexpected ...