Archaeology

The story of the High Dam was a tale of a nation, hikayit sha‘b, as Abdel Halim Hafiz chanted in…

By the mid-1930s, the crisis of Egyptian theater had reached its peak. The global economic depression, coupled with new competition…

Since 11 December, Coptic Christians in Egypt have been reporting, and circulating news about, sightings of apparitions of the Virgin…

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born on10 January 1869 in the small Russian village of Pokrovskoye. In his childhood, he showed…

The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will form a committee to be headed by Nabil el-Arabi, head of the…

Zahi Hawass, Egypt's foremost archaeologist and secretary general of the High Council of Antiquities, caused a stir in the UK…

Luxor--A few years ago a decision was made to turn the city of Luxor into an open-air museum and give…

The South Cairo Civil Court yesterday resumed proceedings over the lawsuit raised by Edouard Empain, grandson of Baron Empain, who…

Weeks after the Algeria and Egypt football game in Sudan, media talkshows and newspapers in Egypt continue to pose angry…

The ancient Egyptians performed transfiguration spells to breathe life into corpses, while the Opening of the Mouth ceremony allowed the…