Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
6/13/2023 9:17:58 PM
Africa has always been at the forefront of actions to promote culture and cultural heritage, as the international campaign to save the Nubian Monuments in the 1960s showed, writes Gihane Zaki
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Egypt
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Tourism
3/16/2023 5:49:01 PM
Belgium's Queen Mathilde and Crown Princess Elisabeth, duchess of Brabant, visited archaeological sites in Egypt’s Luxor governorate on Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
3/3/2023 7:28:00 PM
A new heritage trail exploring 12 Islamic monuments in the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar district of Historic Cairo has been inaugurated.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
2/7/2023 10:34:38 PM
Three Islamic monuments in Historic Cairo were reopened this week after restoration, reports Nevine El-Aref
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
12/19/2022 4:50:37 PM
Many of Ukraine’s monuments and archeological sites have come under Russian gunfire, endangering the country’s cultural heritage as well as a collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts.
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World
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International
9/13/2022 2:31:50 PM
Paris will start switching off the ornamental lights that grace city monuments hours earlier than usual, plunging the Eiffel Tower and other landmarks in the dark to cope with surging electricity costs, officials said Tuesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/31/2022 3:25:00 PM
The Egyptologists who rediscovered the monuments of ancient Egypt often saw what they had discovered as being completely disconnected from modern Egypt, writes Tarek Osman
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Heritage
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Heritage special
12/9/2021 2:11:07 PM
The concept of demolishing cemeteries affects much more than the tangible heritage or historical monuments involved
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
11/25/2021 12:30:00 PM
Luxor will be in a festive mood tonight as the city hosts a celebration intended to promote it as the world’s greatest open-air museum.
The ceremony will put in the limelight Luxor’s enchanting Theban monuments, the mesmerising Nile, vibrant traditional market, and a host of other attractions.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
11/23/2021 10:26:34 PM
Proper site management could go a long way towards solving the problems of conservation, restoration, and tourism at Egypt’s archaeological monuments,
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Antiquities
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8/21/2021 9:10:01 PM
During his tour, the minister met with the area's inhabitants and shop owners and talked about the government’s new development project to preserve and revive historic Cairo to its original glory
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
8/9/2021 12:46:00 PM
The renowned Egyptologist continues his tour of Pharaonic monuments, this time at Abydos and Denderah in Upper Egypt
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World
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International
8/5/2021 10:15:19 PM
The causes of the Greek wildfires were unclear, but authorities say human error and carelessness are most frequently to blame
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
6/29/2021 7:23:23 PM
Zahi Hawass goes on a tour of Pharaonic monuments at Saqqara outside Cairo and Beni Hassan and Amarna in Middle Egypt
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Antiquities
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Islamic
4/18/2021 5:41:17 PM
El-Enany pointed out the mausoleum is one of the most important Islamic monuments in Egypt because it has an ambitious wooden dome considered the largest in Egypt
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
2/11/2021 2:57:00 PM
The Rokaya Doudou sabil kuttab in the Souq Al-Selah area of Islamic Cairo has been successfully restored
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Antiquities
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12/9/2020 2:07:56 PM
The medals are engraved with scenes depicting the monuments and traditions of historic Cairo
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
10/27/2020 9:43:12 PM
Information technology can help satisfy people’s growing curiosity about the lifestyles, and not just the monuments, of ancient Egypt, archaeologist Fatema Keshk tells Dina Ezzat
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Egypt
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Politics
9/26/2020 4:43:19 PM
The court also overturned the former minister of culture’s decision to categorise Abu Hasira's shrine as being one of the country’s Islamic and Coptic monuments
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World
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Region
7/9/2020 1:48:00 PM
Erdogan proposed restoring the mosque status of the 6th-century UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was central to both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires and is now one of the most visited monuments in Turkey
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