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History comes alive in Cairo as the Grand Egyptian Museum reveals Tutankhamun’s full tomb and 7,000 years of Egyptian heritage under one roof. Check out pics.

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi witnesses this Saturday evening the opening of the Great Egyptian Museum, with the ...

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On Nov. 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist following a peace rally in ...

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One of the Mamluk-era tunnels carved into tufa rock at Nahal 'Amal, revealing the sophisticated hydraulic engineering that powered medieval sugar production. (Azriel Yechezkel / A. Frumkin et al., ...

Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the Hellenistic world.