This year’s celebration of the solar alignment phenomenon at the Temples of Abu Simbel in Upper Egypt has been taking place on a virtual basis
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King Seqenenre-Taa-II was killed while fighting Egypt’s invaders and his embalmers had skillfully concealed some head wounds
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The world’s oldest industrial-scale brewery may have been uncovered at Abydos in Upper Egypt
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The brewery consists of at least eight large semi-subterranean installations and was built on the edge of the desert in Abydos at the dawn of ancient Egyptian history
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The campaign, with a long list of stops, started in the Upper Egypt Aswan governorate
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The Rokaya Doudou sabil kuttab in the Souq Al-Selah area of Islamic Cairo has been successfully restored
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A mummy with a golden tongue was found at the Taposiris Magna Temple in Alexandria this week
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A collection of 5,000 artefacts that had been illegally smuggled out of the country has arrived safely back in Egypt from the US
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The collection includes coffins, mummies, funerary masks, heads of stone statues, and papyri with hieroglyphic, Coptic and Arabic text
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The Isis Temple in Aswan has reopened to the public after the completion of restoration work and the development of tourism services
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Spectacular new discoveries at the Saqqara Necropolis outside Cairo this week have revealed more of its secrets and rewritten much of its history
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Egypt’s tourism sector is receiving a helping hand from international organisations
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To encourage domestic tourism in Egypt, an initiative which includes discounts on flights and hotels has started
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An Egyptian excavation mission has uncovered the remains of a Roman fort, an early Coptic church, and a Ptolemaic temple during excavation work carried out at Shiha Fort in Upper Egypt's Aswan.
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Three dozen ram-headed sphinxes and the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses I have been opened to visitors after restoration
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The first stop on Egypt’s Holy Family Route project was inaugurated in the Delta town of Sammanud this week
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It’s been a busy year for archaeologists. Several discoveries made international headlines and major museums and sites were inaugurated in an effort to revivify tourism, the hardest-hit sector due to coronavirus
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The mission has discovered burial shafts with coffins and several artefacts from the New Kingdom
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In 2008, authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle the chariot out of the country through Safaga Port
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The medals are engraved with scenes depicting the monuments and traditions of historic Cairo
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