Cairo — Every year on the first of June, Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church and its members commemorate the holy family's escape to Egypt. According to the Biblical story, the Archangel Gabriel visited ...

The newly uncovered basin lies west of the Temple of Maat (dedicated to Maat, the goddess associated with truth, justice, and cosmic order) and covers more than 50 square meters, according to the ...

Egypt bursts at the seams with historical artifacts. Famous for being the cradle of civilization, Egypt bursts at the seams with historical artifacts. Ancient Egyptian civilization has shined through ...

Egypt has drained the groundwater that had collected below a centuries-old Christian site in a bid to get it removed from the United Nations cultural agency's list of endangered world heritage sites.

As a little girl, Egypt always fascinated me. While a lot of my friends were gobbling up American Girl books (don’t worry, I was too), I took a hard left and became mildly obsessed. Egyptian culture ...

Cairo — Egyptian archaeologists announced Wednesday the discovery of the first burial site in the city of Luxor that dates back to the ancient Egyptian 13th Dynasty. That means the sarcophagi, remains ...

Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old mining complex, complete with remnants of ancient homes, workshops and even baths. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ...

Visiting the grand sites of ancient Egypt can be one of the most exhilarating and jaw-dropping historic tours on the planet. It's also one of the most coveted bucket-list items, with travelers the ...

Egypt has forbidden archaeologists from excavating at a grave site after becoming enraged by their “Afrocentric” approach “falsifying history.” The chief of the Egyptian Antiquities Service’s foreign ...

At least 2,000 mummified ram heads dating from the Ptolemaic period and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered at the temple of Ramses II in the ancient city of Abydos in southern Egypt, ...