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Surprise! The world’s oldest mummies are not in Egypt
Archaeology

Surprise! The world’s oldest mummies are not in Egypt

Arica, Chile (CNN) — The first humans known to have mummified their dead did so in a rather improbable spot:…
Video: Ancient Christian manuscripts digitized at monastery beneath Mount Sinai
Books

Video: Ancient Christian manuscripts digitized at monastery beneath Mount Sinai

At St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Egypt’s Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by…
Billionaires and private donors mobilize to rebuild Notre-Dame
Culture

Billionaires and private donors mobilize to rebuild Notre-Dame

Billionaires and private donors pledged hundreds of millions of euros on Tuesday to help rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris which…
Antiquities Ministry installs service units, restrooms at Pyramids
Egypt

Antiquities Ministry installs service units, restrooms at Pyramids

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities completed on Wednesday the construction of several service units and restrooms at the Giza Pyramids area…
Egyptian Photojournalist Shawkan walks free after five years in prison
Egypt

Egyptian Photojournalist Shawkan walks free after five years in prison

Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, widely known as Shawkan, walked free on Sunday after spending over five years in jail.…
Sharqia’s Holy Family flight celebrations to be added on UNESCO World Heritage Map
Egypt

Sharqia’s Holy Family flight celebrations to be added on UNESCO World Heritage Map

An Egyptian team has begun documenting celebrations along the Holy Family journey route in Sharqia governorate on Monday as preparation…
‘Haunted’ Saudi antiquities site tries to woo visitors
Travel

‘Haunted’ Saudi antiquities site tries to woo visitors

AL ULA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – In a remote northern corner of Saudi Arabia sit the relics of an ancient…
Aswan wins UNESCO Learning City Award 2019: Governor
Culture

Aswan wins UNESCO Learning City Award 2019: Governor

  Governor of Aswan, Ahmed Ibrahim announced on Sunday that the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has selected Aswan…
US, Israel exit UNESCO, claim bias
World

US, Israel exit UNESCO, claim bias

PARIS (AP) — The United States and Israel officially quit UNESCO, the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural agency, at the…
Chile’s embassy to organize conference on mummies
Archaeology

Chile’s embassy to organize conference on mummies

The Chilean embassy in Cairo will organize a conference on bio-archaeology of mummies on Wednesday in cooperation with the UN’s…
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