Archaeology
Archaeologists discover name of lost pharaonic king
March 4, 2012
Archaeologists discover name of lost pharaonic king
Archaeologists have discovered the name of a previously unknown pharaonic king from the 17th dynasty, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali…
Researchers, museum push to open UN archive documenting World War II cases
February 25, 2012
Researchers, museum push to open UN archive documenting World War II cases
Locked inside U.N. headquarters is a huge but largely unknown archive documenting 10,000 cases against accused World War II criminals,…
Threads of ‘Narrating the Arab Spring’
February 25, 2012
Threads of ‘Narrating the Arab Spring’
Many of us have spoken and thought of those we wished were present to witness — and perhaps participate in — the…
Aswan governor: Abu Simbel temple celebration to go on as planned
February 21, 2012
Aswan governor: Abu Simbel temple celebration to go on as planned
The governor of Aswan has decided to go ahead with the annual celebration to commemorate the biannual solar phenomenon at…
Egypt begins restoring ancient boat near pyramids
February 21, 2012
Egypt begins restoring ancient boat near pyramids
CAIRO — Archaeologists on Monday began restoration on a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the pyramids, one of Egypt's…
Minister: 2% of artifacts stolen during security vacuum
February 20, 2012
Minister: 2% of artifacts stolen during security vacuum
Two percent of historical artifacts held in government storehouses were stolen during the period of lax security that followed the…
Chicago’s Field Museum opens rare, brief exhibit of mummies from Egypt, Peru
February 19, 2012
Chicago’s Field Museum opens rare, brief exhibit of mummies from Egypt, Peru
CHICAGO — Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection. Many of them haven't…
Radwa Ashour on the train of images of the Egyptian revolution
February 19, 2012
Radwa Ashour on the train of images of the Egyptian revolution
“I will speak Arabic.” Those were Radwa Ashour’s first words for the keynote speech in the “Narrating the Arab Spring”…
Egypt’s Museums: A look into the ‘GEM,’ Part I
February 16, 2012
Egypt’s Museums: A look into the ‘GEM,’ Part I
On 10 January, almost 20 years since the idea was first conceived, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali announced that the…
Egypt’s mummies divulge secrets in modern Scotland
February 15, 2012
Egypt’s mummies divulge secrets in modern Scotland
Modern technology reveals the secrets kept for thousands of years by Egyptian mummies in a major exhibition at Scotland's National…