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The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is set to announce this week what it claims to be Saqqara’s largest…

Historians agree unanimously on the importance Christianity’s role in the Arab renaissance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…

Remember that famous shot of the Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, descending on a rope into a deep well to…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday opened three museums which had ceased work since 2011 at a total cost…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A museum in Israel on Monday postponed its planned auction of dozens of rare Islamic antiquities after…

For many decades, this gloomy East has been living what might be called a “curse of civilization”. History began here,…

The opening of Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza will foster a noticeable leap in tourism, according to the…

VERVIERS (Reuters) – For years it was just an urban myth. Then the diggers moved in and found it was…

BEIRUT (AP) — It was a century ago on Sept. 1, 1920, that a French general, Henri Gouraud, stood on…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that…