The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the Middle East, has unique stylistic qualities of slenderness and shape Islam is a ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of ...

As a result, residents have turned to alternative solutions, such as praying in the streets or inside makeshift tents in displacement shelters. “No Call to Prayer” – A Ramadan without minarets Ikrami ...

Mar. 20, 2025 — Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By ...

Maaref, one of the older publishing houses in Egypt, and Sirat Al-Qahera, an initiative launched a few years ago to document Cairo’s history, collaborated to produce a series of volumes telling the ...

Omicron looked like it had achieved four or five years’ worth of expected evolution in just months, Jesse Bloom, who studies viral evolution at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, told me at the ...

As for its northern minaret, which is the oldest of its three minarets, it dates back to the era of al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. It was also used as a minaret for the city of Damascus, from which ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...