When Yosef entered, Pharaoh tested him – he said hello to him in Dutch, Greek, and Danish and each time Yosef conversed with him fluently in each language and ascended another step until finally he ...

A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the ...

In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art ...

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At least 69 people died, including 25 Malian nationals, after a boat headed from West Africa to Spain capsized off Morocco on Dec. 19, Malian authorities said. The makeshift boat was carrying ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...

which had descended from ancient Egyptian. He found that the hieroglyphics contained Coptic sounds. “I’ve got it!” Champollion allegedly cried, per National Geographic, when he made his breakthrough.

The design of the letters also confirms this, as they are clearly adaptations of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Scholars now agree that the Proto-Sinaitic script was created by Semites living in Egypt. They ...

In 2018, Tahlequah the killer whale made headlines and broke hearts after she was spotted carrying the body of her dead calf ...

Music producer Richard Perry, known for his iconic collaborations with numerous artists from Carly Simon to Barbra Streisand, has died at the age of 82. Daphna Kastner, Perry’s friend, confirmed ...

Burt, the reptilian star of 1980s classic “Crocodile Dundee,” has died at the age of at least 90 years old. The croc’s death was announced by Australian reptile park Crocosaurus Cove, where ...