AMMAN - The Iqlim Fahl was one of the many districts that constituted the extensive Mamlakat Dimashq in Bilad Al Sham during the Mamluk period (1250/ ...

Al-Khayamiya Street (or Tentmakers Street), which has existed in the heart of Cairo for centuries, even before Israel's ...

As millions of people break their Ramadan fast, many believers around the world reach for a wildly popular dish tied to an ...

The holy month of Ramadan has a unique cultural flavour in Egypt, and among its special traditions is the firing of the ...

Om Ali was the first wife of the first sultan of the Mamluk dynasty, which ruled Egypt from the mid-13th to early 16th Centuries. In 1250, her then-husband, Izz Al-Din Aybak overthrew the Ayyubid ...

Rare manuscripts and historical copies of the Quran are now on display at the Holy Quran Museum in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Gaza was once a crossroads of the ancient civilisations of the Nile and the Levant. The coastal strip was a trading and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the royal tomb of an unknown king who ruled the region during a tumultuous time 3,600 years ago. The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

For years, Egyptologists have assumed pyramid tombs were just for the rich – but the burials at a site called Tombos don’t ...