Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...

One item looks like a ceramic bird cage. Two others look like drinking glasses. An ancient artifact found at the Saqqara site. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

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This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean tourist town of Marsa Matruh, Egypt, I was inspecting cages crowded with wild ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The rediscovery of the multicolored temples of Egypt will revolutionize the impression ... you’re not just cleaning bird poop off the family car anymore, you’re “micro-excavating the hood ...