Archaeology

Fragments of a Quran manuscript found in a British university library are from one of the world's oldest surviving copies…

The archaeological city of Abu Mena, west of Alexandria, the only Coptic archeological site in Egypt registered on the UNESCO…

The American TV channel Spike has started to air a six-hour drama about the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun dubbed "Tut." The series…

Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el Damaty announced that archaeological storehouses that go back to the Ramesside Age (19th and 20th Dynasties)…

History is a fickle mistress, especially when it comes to wars. For the most part, the winners are the ones…

According to Ahmed Amer, a historian and an archaeologist, Eid al-Fitr cookies, a longstanding festive feature of the Islamic feast…

Polish archaeologists have unearthed four ancient tombs at Daqahlia governorate, north of Cairo, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said on Monday. The…

A U.N. agency named the Alamo and the four Spanish colonial Catholic missions in San Antonio as a World Heritage…

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has handed the Antiquities Ministry an artifact retrieved from the United Kingdom, according to Olfat Farah, head of…

The launch of an Italian translation of Zahi Hawass’s book, “The Legend of Tutankhamun”, was celebrated in the city of…