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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
12/20/2025 5:09:10 PM
The recently discovered tomb of King Thutmose II, located on the West Bank of Luxor, has been ranked among the top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2025, according to Archaeology magazine, one of the world’s leading publications in the field.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/24/2025 8:27:05 PM
An Israeli heritage watchdog accused the Israeli government of using archaeology as a political weapon to entrench settlement expansion and advance de facto annexation in the occupied West Bank, after authorities moved to expropriate the entire archaeological acropolis of Sebastia.
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GEM opening
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The Grand Egyptian Museum
10/30/2025 1:12:34 PM
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has announced that entry will be free for several groups of Egyptians, including university students and teachers in archaeology and heritage faculties, war veterans, families of martyrs, accredited journalists, children under six, and visitors with special needs, once the museum officially opens to the public in early November.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
9/3/2025 8:20:18 PM
Egypt and China signed a memorandum of understanding on maritime archaeology at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria last week
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
7/21/2025 6:38:52 PM
The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir has launched a summer training programme for university students specializing in archaeology, tour guiding, and history.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
4/18/2025 6:32:10 PM
The Egyptian archaeological mission, a collaboration between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Archaeology and Heritage, headed by renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, uncovered the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Lectures
4/8/2025 8:53:02 PM
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
1/14/2025 5:56:13 PM
The prestigious Archaeology Magazine has recognized the recently discovered necropolis near the Aga Khan Mausoleum in West Aswan as one of the top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2024.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
5/14/2024 7:20:04 PM
Zahi Hawass continues his account of the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians by looking at evidence garnered through settlement archaeology and images and artefacts from mortuary contexts
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
5/7/2024 9:00:16 PM
The evidence garnered through settlement archaeology, taken in combination with scenes and artefacts from mortuary contexts, provide us with a picture of the idealised daily life of the ancient Egyptians, writes Zahi Hawass in the first of two articles
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Antiquities
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Museums
8/23/2023 8:29:01 PM
Under the title "The Nile is the Lifeline", the Prince Mohamed Ali Palace Museum in Manial presents a temporary archaeological exhibition on water, in celebration of Inundation Day, which falls on 15 August each year.
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
6/11/2023 6:18:30 PM
Restoration work has commenced at the residential area and necropolis in the Marina Alamein archaeological site in Alexandria ahead of its imminent opening to the public, according to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
1/31/2023 8:35:37 PM
A new Paris exhibition is marking 100 years of heritage and archaeology in Afghanistan, writes David Tresilian
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Lectures
12/13/2022 8:48:01 PM
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
10/24/2022 8:03:35 PM
Three university students and a father of one of them have been arrested for stealing 59 artefacts from a museum affiliated with the Faculty of Archaeology at Sohag University in Upper Egypt, the Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
9/28/2022 3:39:34 PM
Egypt is celebrating the 200th anniversary marking the deciphering of the hieroglyphic language.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/20/2022 5:09:41 PM
A burial site from ancient Egypt’s Ramses II era filled with dozens of pottery pieces and bronze artefacts has been unearthed on a beach in Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Sunday according to AFP.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
9/19/2022 6:21:29 PM
Last week, Egyptologist Fatma Keshk gave a lecture at the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo on courtyards in ancient Egypt.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/19/2022 3:54:31 PM
To the south of the causeway of King Unas in Saqqara necropolis, the archaeological mission of the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, headed by Ola El-Aguizy, stumbled upon the sarcophagus of Ptahemwia from the reign of King Ramses II, whose tomb was discovered last year in Saqqara.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
2/2/2022 6:40:00 PM
Egypt signed two memoranda of understanding this week to enhance cooperation with Senegal and South Korea in the field of archaeology and museums
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