Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
7/19/2022 9:37:13 PM
East of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings are the tombs of the officials, courtiers, and even workmen who once served the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
7/15/2022 2:35:10 PM
The shaft tomb of the ancient Egyptian dignitary Wahibre-mery-Neith - who commanded foreign soldiers in Egypt - that was uncovered by a Czech archaeological mission from Charles University in Abusir near Saqqara has shed light on "globalisation" in the ancient world.
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Books
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News
6/9/2022 10:16:39 AM
This year's winner of the International Booker Prize, Geetanjali Shree's novel ``Tomb of Sand,'' will be released in the U.S. this winter by an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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Books
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News
6/1/2022 4:31:17 PM
Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize on Thursday for ``Tomb of Sand,'' a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
5/24/2022 9:57:58 PM
Zahi Hawass continues his four-part series of articles with the search for the tomb of the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Antony.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
3/19/2022 9:31:43 PM
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/17/2022 12:56:07 PM
Five tombs from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate eras were recently uncovered during excavations carried out on the northeastern side of King Merenre Pyramid in Saqqara necropolis.
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World
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Region
2/1/2022 11:52:34 AM
Bulldozers digging for an Egyptian-funded housing project in the Gaza Strip unearthed the ruins of a tomb dating back to the Roman era, Hamas authorities said Monday.
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
1/14/2022 4:17:31 PM
The joint Egyptian-Italian mission working in the vicinity of the Mausoleum of Aga Khan, west of Aswan, uncovered a Greco-Roman rock-cut tomb during work carried out during the last archaeological season.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
12/5/2021 1:13:27 PM
Archaeologists have unearthed two Saite tombs with human remains with golden tongues at El-Bahnasa archaeological site in the Upper Egypt governorate of Minya, the Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said on Sunday.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
10/30/2021 10:30:24 PM
An archaeological mission from Cairo University uncovered the tomb of Ptah-M-Wia, head of the treasury during the reign of King Ramses II, during excavation work at the Saqqara necropolis, a statement by the Egyptian Tourism Ministry said on Saturday.
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Egypt
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Politics
10/5/2021 1:34:04 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi laid wreaths at the Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo’s Nasr City district on Tuesday as well as at the tombs of former presidents Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar El-Sadat.
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Multimedia
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9/13/2021 7:04:22 PM
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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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5/11/2021 5:59:34 PM
It is expected that more graves will be uncovered before the project is completed
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Multimedia
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4/28/2021 4:03:45 PM
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Antiquities
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4/27/2021 3:09:52 PM
Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that 68 of these tombs date back to the Boto I and II eras, five from the Naqada III era, and 37 from the Second Intermediate Period era
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World
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Region
4/11/2021 3:15:21 PM
State media showed the monarch and other members of the royal family laying wreaths at the memorial to the unknown soldier and tombs of royalty in the Raghdan palace in Amman
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Egypt
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Politics
3/18/2021 10:51:58 PM
The royal procession will take spectators back to the ancient Egyptian period, when kings and queens were transported to their tombs towards eternity
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Opinion
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3/4/2021 11:20:00 PM
It is very rare to discover an intact ancient Egyptian tomb, but this took place in 1998 with the discovery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian priest Iufaa at Abusir
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