Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that ...

Global trade in gum arabic centres on the African nation – and proceeds bankroll conflict between the army and paramilitary ...

While the acacia trees that yield gum arabic grow across ... and sell it to big consumer goods firms. Sorge, who fled to Egypt after RSF forces stole his entire gum supply in 2023, shared WhatsApp ...

Sudan produces around 80% of the world's gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that's widely used to mix, stabilise and thicken ingredients in mass-market products including ...

While the acacia trees that yield gum arabic grow across ... controls all production areas," Sorge said. Sorge, who fled to Egypt after RSF forces stole his entire gum supply in 2023, shared ...

Gum Arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M’s sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of war-torn Sudan, traders and industry sources say, ...