While his interest in ancient Greco-Roman sculpture served as a wellspring of inspiration, an often overlooked part of his ...

Winter is the ideal time to visit Luxor's Valley of the Kings, the millenia-old site of pharaonic tombs that houses the final resting place of King Tutankhamun (and possibly Queen Nefertiti). Despite ...

President John Dramani Mahama has extended warm congratulations to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the people of Egypt on the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, located just outside ...

Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning 7,000 years of history. The museum's biggest attraction is the full ...

Only moving to wipe the moisture off my heated brow in the searing Egyptian sun, I gazed open-mouthed as I stood in front of one of the most captivating panoramas I'd ever seen in my 47 years of life.

The Colossi of Memnon are a pair of giant statues made of stone that are located in the Theban Necropolis in Luxor, Upper Egypt. The statues were made during the 14th century BC, during the period in ...

Egyptian authorities have detained prominent independent journalist and researcher Ismail Iskandarani over Facebook posts critical of government policies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. HRW ...

Cairo — A rare 4,000-year-old limestone relief has vanished from a tomb in Egypt's famous Saqqara Necropolis, officials say, in the second major apparent theft of an antiquity in just weeks. The ...

The royal tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, one of the greatest builders of ancient Egypt, was officially opened to the public for the first time on Saturday, October 4th, in the Valley of the Kings in ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, one of the largest in southern Egypt's Valley of the Kings and Queens, was officially opened to the public Saturday after years of restoration. Egypt's tourism and ...