Archaeology

Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim announced Thursday that a special ministry unit had foiled an attempt to smuggle belongings of former…

History will long remember Hassan Fathy for his courageous yet unsuccessful attempt to use architecture as a tool that could…

Celebrating the diamond jubilee of its confiscation of the film “Lashin” on 17 March 1937, Egypt’s Board of Censors marked…

Almost half a century after after he passed away on 12 March 1964, the family of Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad feels…

On 12 March 1964, an Egyptian cultural legend died aged 75. For decades, Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad had engaged in intellectual…

Fourteen black granite statues of the goddess Sekhmet were found by a German mission during excavations at the temple of…

An Egyptian independent archaeologist has warned on Friday that Antinoupolis, one of the country’s largest archaeological sites located in Minya,…

On 3 March 1978, Egyptian literary pioneer Tawfiq al-Hakim wrote in state-run Al-Ahram newspaper, “Arabs now have money and men.…

Bibliotheca Alexandrina has announced the launch of an online archive of more than 2300 Egyptian postage stamps, dating from 1866 to…

The Finance Ministry's recent proposal to rent out the country’s key monuments, including the pyramids in Giza, to fund the…