The first Middle Kingdom tomb ever found in the South Asasif Necropolis has been unearthed
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Ancient Egypt meets the avant-garde as the global art world converges on the Giza Plateau for this year’s Forever Is Now exhibition, writes Nevine El-Aref
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Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has denied social media claims that iconic lion statues on Cairo's Qasr El-Nil Bridge were painted black.
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Popular Turkish actor Burak Deniz was guided by Ashraf Mohy El-Din, the General Director of Giza Antiquities, on a tour of the Pyramids of Giza on Sunday as part of his current trip to Egypt.
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Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Alaa Farouk launched on Saturday the National Programme for the Care and Protection of Horses, Camels, and Pets at Archaeological Sites.
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This week’s soft opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum marks the beginning of a new era for Egypt’s heritage, reports Nevine El-Aref
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The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir has inaugurated a new exhibition featuring the complete set of wooden panels from the Mastaba of Hesy-Re discovered in Saqqara.
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In a significant move to reclaim its cultural heritage, Egypt has successfully recovered three ancient artefacts from Germany.
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In a significant step towards preserving Egypt’s ancient heritage, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Germany’s Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) to rediscover and protect valuable manuscripts and papyri housed in Egypt’s archaeological museums.
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The “Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs” and “On Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilization" exhibitions proved successful two months after their official inaugurations in Germany's Cologne and China's Shanghai.
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A joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission from Sohag and Berlin Universities has discovered the burial chamber of a woman named Edi, daughter of Jifai-Hapi who was governor of Assuit in Upper Egypt during the reign of King Senusret I of the 12th dynasty (1991–1778 BC).
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UNESCO and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square are celebrating Egypt’s intangible cultural heritage, writes Nevine El-Aref
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Dr Khaled El-Enany, Egypt's candidate for the post of UNESCO Director-General, was awarded an honorary doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) by Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier, France.
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The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in collaboration with the US embassy in Cairo and the American Research Centre in Egypt (ARCE) has launched a Centralized Museum Repository Project to support the implementation of the ministry’s Central Information System: Data Rescue, Training and Needs Assessment Project.
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In a remarkable archaeological discovery, the Edfu Temple in Upper Egypt has revealed, for the first time, a new section of its original hieroglyphic inscriptions and coloured scenes, shedding new light on the religious practices of ancient Egyptian priests during the Ptolemaic period.
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The century-long battle over the return of the bust of the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti from Germany to its homeland is continuing.
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The Coptic Museum in Cairo is hosting a special 30-day archaeological exhibition, 'The Saint Knight', in celebration of the Coptic New Year (1741 AM), which corresponds to 2024-2025 AD.
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Renowned Egyptologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has revived an initiative to repatriate the 3400-year-old Bust of Queen Nefertiti, launching an international petition calling for the return of the iconic bust to its homeland after decades of being on display in Berlin, Germany.
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An Egyptian archaeological mission led by archaeologist Ahmed Said El-Kharadly from the Supreme Council of Antiquities unearthed military barracks, weapon stores, and other provisions dating back to the New Kingdom era at the Tel Al-Abqain archaeological site in Beheira governorate.
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The Mohamed Ali Tawfik Museum on the Manial Al-Roda Island in Cairo is receiving a facelift.
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