More than 200 animals of 19 different species march across the handle of this knife, which was crafted from flint and elephant ivory, sometime between 3300 and 3100 B.C.E., during Egypt's ...

Still, a recent government announcement that its doors will be closed for a year to make improvements has been met with scepticism by the public and animal welfare groups alike. "My kids love the zoo.

An estimated 8 million mummified animals, mostly dogs, were laid in the catacombs of Anubis, a high figure that surprises even veteran Egyptologists.

If you took a cruise along the northern stretch of the Nile some 6,000 years ago, you wouldn't have seen any pyramids, but you might have spotted a giraffe or an elephant taking a drink at the bank of ...

By looking at images of animals in Egypt's archaeological record, scientists found that most extinctions over the last 6,000 years were linked to periods of big change in terms of climate and ...

Egypt zoo overhaul plan raises animal welfare fears Image caption, Giza Zoo is a popular attraction - but it has been criticised for being substandard Article Information Author, Wael Hussein and ...

If you took a cruise along the northern stretch of the Nile some 6,000 years ago, you wouldn't have seen any pyramids, but you might have spotted a giraffe or an elephant taking a drink at the bank of ...