Go back in time to ancient Egypt. Thousands of years, in fact. Their influence on modern life can be seen in our language, art, engineering, and more. Gain a new appreciation for ancient Egyptian ...

In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic cataclysm. Libyan desert glass is the name given to fragments of canary-yellow glass found scattered over ...

The mysterious yellow glass of Egypt can be found for several thousands of square kilometers and has been a topic of debate for almost a century now. The canary yellow glass was famously used to ...

Visit the right patch of desert along the border of Libya and Egypt, and you could stumble on pieces of pale yellow glass, the traces of a meteorite impact that took place 29 million years ago. That ...

This glass fish was found in a fairly modest private house in Amarna, buried under a plaster floor along with a few other objects. It may once have contained ointment. The Trustees of the British ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed two 1,500-year-old churches in Egypt, offering rare evidence of Christianity’s rise in the country's Western Desert. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Elizaveta Kovaleva receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Great Sand Sea Desert stretches over an area of 72,000km² linking Egypt and Libya. If you find yourself in a ...

Aaron J. Cavosie receives funding from the Australian Research Council for work not related to this study. In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic ...