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It is housed in a pointed structure that looks deceptively like the mausoleum of a member of royalty or the nobility. But once visitors are through its wooden gate, what is revealed is an ...

American and Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a rare structure called a nilometer in the ruins of the ancient city of Thmuis in Egypt’s Delta region. Likely constructed during the third century ...

Five thousand years after the Egyptians demonstrated science’s ability to hold death at bay, Florida’s governor is committed to denying his constituents that benefit. The Egyptians invented a device ...

CAIRO, July 17 (KUNA) -- The Nilometer, located in the Egyptian capital Cairo, still stands to this day as a classical Islamic architectural wonder. Constructed by Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil in the ...

Years of drought have lowered the surface of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), Israel’s main water source. The Dead Sea is rapidly shrinking, and the Jordan River is drying up, as the result of ...

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Archaeologists working at the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor, Egypt, have uncovered the remains of a fifth century Coptic church and a Nilometer, a structure used to measure the level of the Nile during ...