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Egypt
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Defence
10/3/2022 3:00:45 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Monday laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier Memorial to mark the 49th anniversary of the October War victory.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/19/2022 3:54:31 PM
To the south of the causeway of King Unas in Saqqara necropolis, the archaeological mission of the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, headed by Ola El-Aguizy, stumbled upon the sarcophagus of Ptahemwia from the reign of King Ramses II, whose tomb was discovered last year in Saqqara.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
9/6/2022 9:52:59 PM
The dream of finding the tomb of Alexander the Great continues to haunt imaginations around the world, with many situating it in Alexandria, writes Hussein Bassir
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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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