The Hebrew Bible does not number the plagues of Egypt, but the number ten has been canonized in Jewish and Christian tradition, and a list of the ten plagues appears in the Jewish Passover ...

And now archaeologists have found the remains of what appears to be victims of the widespread disease, in a pit in Luxor, Egypt ... 7th century BC and it was continually used until it became a ...

The discovery provides molecular evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt, as researchers have confirmed that Yersinia pestis existed at least at one point in the region. The finding ...

Calm prevailed in Cairo and in other parts of the country on the seventh anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 popular uprising due largely to stepped-up security measures imposed by the authorities.