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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
6/12/2022 3:27:50 PM
The Egyptian National Railway Authority (NRA) announced on Sunday that the Royal Train, which was manufactured in the mid 1920s by Italy’s Fiat, arrived in Alexandria after it was renovated to its original condition to be displayed in the Montaza Historical Museum.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
6/4/2022 10:10:59 PM
New York prosecutors have announced seizing five Egyptian artefacts worth more than $3 million from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of an investigation into international trafficking involving the Louvre Museum.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
5/31/2022 10:25:11 PM
A new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris focuses on ancient Egypt’s Kushite Dynasty that originated in today’s Sudan.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
5/26/2022 2:53:56 PM
The former president of the Louvre museum in Paris has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of Egyptian archaeological treasures that investigators suspect were spirited out of the country during the Arab Spring uprisings, a French judicial source said Thursday.
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Antiquities
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Museums
5/16/2022 8:55:27 PM
In celebration of the first anniversary of the opening of the two archaeological museums at Cairo International Airport, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Monday that museum visitors will be able to enter free of charge on 18 May.
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Antiquities
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Museums
5/16/2022 6:08:54 PM
Architectural work at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is scheduled for completion by the end of June and interior finishes by the end of September, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Monday.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
5/11/2022 8:11:32 PM
A Danish-Egyptian furniture exhibition featuring designers from both countries is being held at Trapholt Kunst Museum in Kolding, Denmark
Dubbed Bilingual Design, the exhibition runs between 5 and 12 May 2022.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
5/7/2022 8:13:41 PM
To mark the 25th anniversary of the inauguration of the Mummification Museum in Luxor, the museum offered free guided tours to Egyptian visitors on Saturday 7 May.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
5/7/2022 11:08:52 AM
Paintings of wounded children and grieving women line the walls, while loudspeakers spit out the sound of approaching war planes.
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Egypt
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Tourism
5/4/2022 4:02:50 PM
Three-time Grammy Award-winning US band Maroon 5 visited on Wednesday the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir square, downtown Cairo, hours after they performed their first concert in the North African country at the great historical sight of the Giza pyramids.
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Egypt
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Society
5/3/2022 1:43:54 PM
More than 50,000 Egyptians visited a number of museums and archaeological sites in different parts of Egypt on the 1st day of Eid El-Fitr according to the electronic booking system in those sites , MENA reported.
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Egypt
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Society
5/2/2022 7:23:56 PM
Archaeological museums all over Egypt celebrated Labour Day and the advent of Eid El-Fitr by organising special exhibitions in their foyers featuring collections of various artefacts depicting Egyptian celebrations across history.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
4/23/2022 9:22:11 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has directed the construction of the Al-Hadara axis to serve as a new entrance to El-Mokattam hills and to link the suburb with the area of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) in Cairo.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
4/12/2022 10:22:19 PM
A year after its official inauguration and reception of the royal mummies, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation will present the art of Egyptian textiles throughout history, writes Nevine El-Aref
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
4/10/2022 1:16:17 PM
Finland says that a shipment of art works from Russian museums has been returned to Russia after it was seized under European Union sanctions against Moscow.
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Antiquities
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Museums
4/7/2022 3:29:49 PM
To promote and encourage travellers at Cairo International Airport to visit the Archaeological Museum on Terminal 2 during their transit in Egypt, a collection of banners and signage have been installed at different corners of the airport to attract more visitors.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
4/5/2022 11:12:48 PM
The Tabataba Mausoleum has been moved to a safer location neighbouring the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation in Fustat
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/20/2022 12:22:28 PM
After decades of being closed to visitors, a part of the Babylon fort located within the façade of the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo was inaugurated on Sunday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
3/1/2022 10:24:51 PM
Work is in full swing at the long-awaited Aten Museum in Minya before its official opening
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
3/1/2022 10:14:49 PM
The Grand Egyptian Museum, the first eco-friendly museum in Egypt, is being readied for its grand opening with the arrival of gigantic ancient Egyptian colossi
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