More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

Despite Nasser’s protestations, there was considerable evidence that Britons, Frenchmen and Jews resident in Egypt were indeed being given short shrift. In Marseille, Jewish refugees from Port ...

Archaeologists have unearthed ancient remains of Egyptian barracks in Alexandria ... found in the establishment was a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the king's name in hieroglyphics.