Patrick Blanc is a French botanist and designer who invented the concept of the vertical garden and has been on a quest to green walls across the planet with his plant-based creations for the last 25 ...

In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte sailed with a French army to Egypt. The plan was to conquer the wealthy Ottoman province and deal a major blow to British ...

Patrick Blanc, the inventor of living walls, has completed his latest vertical garden, covering the side of a five-storey Parisian block with waves of 7600 plants (+ slideshow). The Oasis of Aboukir ...

After storming Egypt and dreaming of empire, Napoleon faced a crushing test at Aboukir. What followed was a brutal clash that nearly unraveled his entire campaign ...

Blanc’s team began installing the framework for the gorgeous vertical garden just seven weeks ago, on the corner of Aboukir Street and the Petits Carreaux street. The designer’s original sketch shows ...

The Aboukir Primary School in rural St Ann is on its way to being fully powered by solar energy following the donation of solar panels by the United States-based Renewable Energy Solar Education and ...

1 August is Lammas, autumn Quarter Day, and the national day of Switzerland. 1560: Scotland’s Parliament abolished papal jurisdiction and approved a Calvinistic confession of faith, founding ...

A diver holds a granite head, meant to be the head of a priest, from the Ptolemaic period. The now-hollow eyes were probably inlaid when it was first made in ancient Egypt. Christoph Gerigk An ...