This weekend, the winter solstice takes place, meaning Michiganders can start looking forward to longer days and more ...

The winter solstice is a special day at the Ancient Egyptian temple complex at Luxor on the Nile River. On the northern ...

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, and southern China. The winter solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorn, which is located at 23.5 degrees south of the equator and runs ...

Egypt’s national dish is koshari, which is made of pasta, fried rice, vermicelli, brown lentils, chickpeas, garlic tomato ...

In 1994, Congress decreed February as National Bird Feeding Month. Bird feeding is the activity of feeding wild birds other than from natural sources. “To feed or not or not to feed” supplemental bird ...

Winter solstice: Sun aligns with ancient Luxor temple ... 30 things Americans consider normal but no one else understands Egyptian pyramids were built using an incredibly clever machine, new ...

Thousands visited Luxor's Karnak Temple to witness the sun align with its main axis, marking winter's start on December 21.

On the solstice, the sun rises at 08:44 GMT and sets at 15:59 in Belfast, offering seven hours and 15 minutes of daylight. By ...

Historically, the winter solstice has been of great importance to many cultures, such as Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome, often as a marker for the passing seasons, and a possible time of rebirth.