Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), also known as laughing hyenas, are native to sub-Saharan Africa and thrive in a variety of ...