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Books
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News
2/15/2025 2:51:01 PM
Egyptologist and academician Monica Hanna talks about her recent book, “The Future of Egyptology,” which provides a roadmap to revamp this social science away from the heavy colonial imprint.
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Antiquities
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Museums
5/26/2024 6:42:29 PM
Professor of Egyptology and MP Gihane Zaki has been named the Chief Executive Officer of the Grand Egyptian Museum, sources told Ahram Online on Sunday.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
2/24/2024 12:51:01 PM
Antiquities Clichés, a book by Egyptologist Fatma Keshk released last week, clarifies and highlights some of the popular, yet inaccurate, information on ancient Egypt that is passed on from one generation to the next.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
11/1/2023 3:27:30 PM
The third season of Egyptology in Arabic initiative, which has recently opened, delved into the origins of fuul (fava beans), food columns, and the Egyptian kitchen.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/26/2023 3:42:03 PM
A joint Egyptian-German mission has made an unprecedented discovery of eight previously undocumented storage chambers – or magazines – within Sahure’s Pyramid in the Abusir Necropolis south of Giza.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
8/17/2023 10:18:24 AM
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday that Egyptologist Sakuji Yoshimura, Professor Emeritus of Waseda University (Ph.D. in Engineering) has received the Japanese Foreign Minister's Certificate of Appreciation for the year 2023
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Heritage
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Heritage special
8/8/2023 6:47:06 PM
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina launched a restored copy of Egypt's first Hieroglyphics/Arabic/French dictionary that was handwritten by renowned Egyptian Egyptologist Ahmed Kamal Pasha (1851-1923) after a two-and-half-year restoration project.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
8/7/2023 4:57:30 PM
More than 850 scholars, archaeologists, heritage experts, Egyptologists, and students from 32 countries, including Egypt, have converged on Leiden, the Netherlands, to take part in the International Congress of Egyptology (ICE), held from 6 to 11 August.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/3/2023 2:27:00 PM
Egypt's Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa unveiled in a press conference at the Giza Plateau that a corridor has been discovered inside Giza’s Khufu Pyramid.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
2/12/2023 11:36:19 AM
The pioneering Japanese Egyptologist Sakuji Yoshimura – who is supervising the restoration of Khufu’s Second Sun Boat for the Grand Egyptian Museum – was honoured Tuesday with a certificate of appreciation by the country’s ambassador.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
2/9/2023 2:31:15 PM
The northern and southern rooms of deity Amun Re, located on the Upper Terrace of Hatshepsut Temple in Deir El-Bahari and the Tomb of Meru at the North Asasif necropolis, Luxor's West Bank, are now open to visitors after their restoration.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
12/6/2022 11:29:10 PM
This year marks the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun in what is still the most famous achievement of modern Egyptology, writes David Tresilian in the first of a series of articles
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
11/29/2022 10:18:09 PM
Egyptology recently lost one of its greatest scholars with the death of Australian Egyptologist David O’Connor, writes Zahi Hawass
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Egypt
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Tourism
11/17/2022 1:17:48 PM
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Antiquities
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Museums
10/12/2022 10:34:59 AM
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
10/6/2022 10:45:00 AM
As the world celebrates the bicentenary of the decipherment of hieroglyphs and the creation of Egyptology, leading Egyptologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has asked for the return of the Rosetta Stone from London
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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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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
9/1/2022 5:05:00 PM
Egypt is celebrating the bicentenary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the creation of Egyptology with a batch of new events and a social media campaign
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
4/30/2022 5:46:00 PM
A new Paris exhibition is celebrating Jean-François Champollion, the French decipherer of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century and one of the founding figures of modern Egyptology.
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Heritage
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Photo Heritage
9/6/2021 12:50:02 PM
Excavations from the desert to the Nile are the subject of a book by the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo
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