In the USSR, Jewish life, Jewish religion and Jewish education were forbidden. Anyone who wanted to learn about Jewishness had to seek out ways to learn about it at his or her own risk. Jewish ...

This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.

We would like to take a moment to talk about a very special person, who dedicated his time and energy to the Egyptian’s mighty Wurlitzer organ, Mr. Paul Quarino. Paul, ...

Dearly beloved/We are gathered here today/To get through this thing called life/Electric word life/It means forever and ...

An Israeli music critic and a Palestinian musician share some songs with NPR's Daniel Estrin — and reflect on more than a ...

Today’s roundup of musical history highlights a golden-haired troubadour with a grin as wide as the Rocky Mountains.

Tributes are pouring in for the singer, who revolutionised Egyptian music and broke away from traditional classical music.

An Israeli music critic and a Palestinian musician share some songs — in Hebrew and Arabic — released in this year of war.

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...

In Egyptian mythology, gods and goddesses could transform into animals, but only one, Bastet, goddess of home and fertility, was believed to be able to take on the form of a cat. A magnificent ...

nothing about the instrument bears any relation to Egypt or Egyptian music. What's more, it seems as if Behringer wasn't only drawing on the Volca Keys for inspiration when designing the Phara-O: its ...