Philip Kennicott visited New Gourna and Cairo in Egypt and Diyarbakir in Turkey to explore historic cooling techniques. Sima Diab photographed them in Egypt. Dec. 28 at 6:30 a.m.
More than 2,300 years ago, one of Alexander the Great's most major battles took place at a site near the Biga River in Çanakkale Province in northwestern Turkey. The river was known as the ...