At Egypt’s Elephantine Island, newly examined granite artifacts reveal machining marks that some experts believe couldn’t have been made with primitive tools. This video explores the most ...

The island of Elephantine in Egypt's Nile River contains the remains of a Jewish temple destroyed at the end of the 5th century B.C. Archaeologists have discovered a wealth of ancient documents ...

Zookeepers at Berlin Zoo on Monday gave elephantine residents refreshing showers to cope with soaring temperatures, as a ...

Elephantine may have been at the far fringe of Egyptian society, but it remained very much connected to the broader world, through trade as well as its culture.

THE ELEPHANTINE HOTEL. Share full article. Aug. 26, 1883. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 26, 1883, Page 6 Buy Reprints. View on ...

WILBUR THE HAT—Hendrik Van Loon—Boni, Liveright ($3.50). Wilbur, a hat blown into Kingdom Come, found himself drifting down one of the principal waterways of that monarchy accompanied by ...

The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds. Some animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our eyeglasses?

Israeli archaeologist Gad Barnea has recently translated a fragment from Elephantine, written on a pottery sherd.Barnea has indicated that the text is part of a ritual intended to get vengeance ...

A quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and ...