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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
5/18/2025 7:20:00 PM
Egypt has successfully recovered 20 ancient Egyptian artefacts, which had been illegally smuggled out of the country.
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Egypt
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Tourism
5/16/2025 3:42:39 PM
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy announced Thursday that the pilot phase of a new visa-on-arrival system will begin at Cairo International Airport in mid-June.
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Egypt
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Tourism
5/13/2025 6:08:29 PM
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy stated that the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), set for a grand opening on 3 July, will serve as an international hub for research and studies in Egyptology, besides being a venue for displaying antiquities.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/12/2025 8:23:00 PM
Egypt has retrieved 25 looted antiquities from the United States following a three-year legal and diplomatic campaign involving Egypt’s consulate in New York, with support from the US District Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, prosecutors, and private collectors.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
5/6/2025 5:04:36 PM
To mark the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum on 3 July, Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass presents a special series of articles exploring the legacy of Tutankhamun
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
5/3/2025 3:06:22 PM
The Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has uncovered military defensive structures and a residential area for soldiers at the Tell Abu Saifi archaeological site in North Sinai.
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Egypt
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Tourism
5/1/2025 6:03:12 PM
Angolan President João Lourenço, the current chair of the African Union, visited the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) with his wife, Angola's first lady, during his three-day visit to Egypt, according to a statement by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
4/23/2025 10:07:40 AM
Egyptologist and former minister of tourism and antiquities Khaled El-Enany is running for UNESCO director-general.
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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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Egypt
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Tourism
4/9/2025 2:11:54 PM
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy recently issued a ministerial decree streamlining the conditions and regulations for licensing holiday home rentals, a relatively new form of tourist accommodation in Egypt.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/22/2025 4:52:38 PM
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will participate in the Global Earth Hour initiative tonight, a worldwide effort to raise awareness about climate change and energy conservation.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/20/2025 1:23:57 PM
An Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered the tomb of a high-ranking military commander dating back to King Ramses III, along with a collection of mass and individual graves from the Greek, Roman, and Late Periods at Tell Roud Iskander in the Maskhouta area, Ismailia Governorate.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
2/25/2025 4:52:09 PM
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has completed the revival of the 3,000-year-old gold mining city recently uncovered at Jabal Sukari, southwest of Marsa Alam City in the Red Sea Governorate.
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Egypt
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Tourism
2/6/2025 5:12:48 PM
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy inaugurated the Egyptian pavilion at the 28th East Mediterranean International Tourism & Travel Exhibition (EMITT) in Istanbul on Thursday.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
1/8/2025 6:21:02 PM
A joint Egyptian archaeological mission led by the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage and by the Supreme Council of Antiquities has made groundbreaking discoveries at the site near the causeway of Queen Hatshepsut’s funerary temple at Deir El-Bahari in Luxor.
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Egypt
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Tourism
1/8/2025 4:36:21 PM
Egypt attracted a record 15.7 million tourists in 2024, surpassing the previous year's record of 14.9 million, Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathy said on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Tourism
12/23/2024 5:49:29 PM
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy said Monday that Egypt will soon regulate the use of Airbnb, the global home-renting platform.
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Egypt
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Tourism
12/23/2024 1:06:18 PM
The number of tourist arrivals in Egypt is expected to reach around 15.3 million by the end of 2024, reflecting an annual growth rate of approximately five percent from 2023, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy said.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
12/19/2024 8:58:08 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has dismissed as “entirely baseless” claims suggesting that renowned American YouTuber MrBeast rented the Giza Pyramids area for 100 hours for filming purposes.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
11/23/2024 1:14:44 PM
A joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission has uncovered a new Ptolemaic temple near the Great Temple of Atribis in Sohag. The discovery, led by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and the University of Tübingen, marks an exciting addition to Sohag’s rich archaeological sites.
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