The origin of Elephantine Island’s name remains murky. Some spy the mammal in its hulking granite rocks, or conjure the specter of some long-extinct herd. Others point to the lucrative ivory trade it ...

A Swiss excavation mission led by Swiss archaeologist Cornelius Pilgrim unearthed two headless statues and an offering stele during excavation works within the vicinity of Khnum temple on the Nile ...

In just one of the nearly 100,000 asbestos cases U.S. Gypsum faces, a Beaumont, Texas jury this year awarded $35 million to 22 workers at a Texaco oil refinery. None of them shows any symptoms of ...

Ancient stone blocks depicting Queen Hatshepsut have been discovered on Egypt's Elephantine Island, providing insights into the early years of her reign, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced this ...

A visit to Aswan’s quarries and Elephantine Island reveals precision-cut granite, unexplained scooping marks, and test shafts that defy standard ancient tool theory. Experts on-site dismiss the idea ...

SHERIF AND NADINE FARAG say the story of their bakery in Portsmouth has its roots on Elephantine Island in Egypt’s Nile River, where an ancient bakery stood. “We are inspired by this history, by the ...

“In the years since Stanley Kubrick’s death, his films have come to seem ever more anomalous. Some of this has to do with his movies’ characteristic registers, which, in their mixture of grandiosity, ...