Egypt News » Faiyum News Egypt » Faiyum » Health: Prehistoric Survey of Egypt and Western Asia Vol 1: Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide; a Study of the Region during Pliocene and Pleistocene Times
News channel or source: https://www.nature.com/articles/128287a0
Published on: Friday 21 August 2026
THE Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago a few years ago began a prehistoric survey of Egypt and Western Asia under the direction of Dr. J. II. Breasted. It devoted attention first to the ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » Health: The ancient whale from my Egyptian home town
News channel or source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00164-w
Published on: Sunday 23 January 2022
If you pick up any book about the palaeontology of whales, there’s a strong chance that you’ll see ‘Faiyum Depression’ somewhere in there. Faiyum, Egypt, is a desert now, but it was once teeming with ...