You gotta dig it. An archeologist is on a mission to reveal the history behind Indiana Jones — and has found himself living out some of his Hollywood hero’s adventures in real life along the way. Dr.

One such prop was the headpiece to the Staff of Ra that Jones uses to indicate the Ark’s hiding place in Tanis, which Reynolds ... Frescoes painted on the Egyptian set pieces contained real ...

Turkey is expected to play a major role as the new government takes over ruling Syria. Turkey had shown tacit support for groups fighting the Assad dictatorship.

For more on Syria's future and Turkey's influence, we turn now to NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi in Damascus and NPR's Fatma Tanis in Istanbul. Welcome. FATMA TANIS, BYLINE: Thank you. HADEEL AL-SHALCHI ...

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 ...

December 27, 2024 • After Bashar al-Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that currently controls a third of ...

Ultimately, Agenor’s family was believed to be Greek in origin. Agenor himself was a descendant of Io, a princess from Argos who had escaped to Egypt. Some of Io’s descendants stayed in Egypt for ...