What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

Empain instructed Marcel to build his Hindu villa in Heliopolis as an exact replica of the Hindu tower exhibited in Paris. This house, which remains a beacon of architectural history, had been ...

Antiquities Home Ancient Egypt Greco-Roman Coptic Islamic Museums. ... On Cairo's Al-Orouba Street in Heliopolis lays the gigantic Baron Empain Palace, ... far removed from Egypt’s tourism map. ...

Dr. Niveen Nizar, the antiquities minister’s assistant for museum affairs, said that the exhibition is expected to include a variety of photographs, explanatory documents, illustrations, and maps on ...

This 17th century map puts Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Atlantis is an imaginary city that features in the work of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.

Evidence of the sanctuary belonging to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Nectanebo I has been discovered in Heliopolis. German and Egyptian archaeologists found limestone columns, basalt walls and ...

World News: The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient royalty at a sun temple in Heliopolis, an archaeological site that was once a major city near what is now Cairo. The stone-carved ...

A chapel belonging to King Nectanebo I has been discovered in the Heliopolis Temple for the first time by German archaeologists. Researchers discovered the bottom part of a chapel complete with ...

Iconic landmark on Cairo's outskirts will soon be reopened to public after planned restoration work, conversion into international culture centre On Cairo's Al-Orouba Street in Heliopolis lays the ...