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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has had to return 27 ancient artifacts worth over $13 million after New York investigators claimed that the items were looted. According to The New York Times, the objects were taken from Italy and Egypt. The museum acquired eight of those items from gallery owner Gianfranco Becchina, who was accused […]
Fresh off a performance in Milan earlier this week, Alicia Keys was gifted an extravagant piece of jewelry by husband Swizz Beatz. Designed by famous jeweler Elliot Eliantte, TMZ reports the 150-carat pendant cost an estimated $400,000. The necklace features baguette diamonds molded in the shape of the Great Pyramids, which sit alongside a portrait of Alicia inspired by the 18th-century ancient […]
At least three people have died and more than 500 were hospitalized after a thunderstorm brought an unusually high amount of rainfall to a city in Egypt over the weekend, resulting in a flash flood that carried several deadly scorpions into people’s homes, The Washington Post reports. The city of Aswan is considered one of the driest cities in the world, […]
Egypt’s Suez Canal was stuck again on Thursday by another Panama-flagged ship, nearly six months after the now infamous Ever Given spent six days clogging up the massive waterway and causing a global trade disruption, the Associated Press reports. The Suez Canal Authority said officials temporarily suspended travel through the canal before redirecting other vessels when the Coral Crystal ran aground. The ship itself was […]
Scientists revealed Wednesday that the fossil from a new amphibious four-legged whale species known as Phiomicetus anubis was discovered in the Fayum Depression of the Western Desert in Egypt, BBC News reports. Dating back 43 million years, this species was named after the area where the discovery was made and Anubis, the Egyptian jackal-headed god […]
The remains of an ancient city has been discovered in Egypt, which is said to be the largest ever found in the country. CBS News reports that archaeologists have unearthed the remains in the desert near Luxor, Egypt, where the Valley of the Kings is located. The newly uncovered site is 3,000 years old, from […]
On Tuesday, the Suez Canal, one of the biggest waterways on the planet, had traffic clog up because a massive container ship (the Ever Given) got stuck. At the risk of either patronizing you or giving you a geography lesson, the 120-mile-long man-made passage connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Trade goes both ways (duh) but the […]
Mohamed Morsi, the former president of Egypt who was ousted by the military in 2013, collapsed and died in a courtroom on Monday. The leader of the now-banned Islamist party the Muslim Brotherhood was in court for a hearing on espionage charges when he died at the age of 67. “He was speaking before the […]
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