Egypt’s most surprising destinations aren’t in Cairo—several cities across the country are blending modern growth with deep ...

A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is Alexander the Great. In 336 BCE, at the age of 20, he began a campaign leading the Greek and ...

Finally, the Grand Egyptian Museum officially opened on November 1. The museum, which had repeatedly delayed its opening, ...

Excerpted from “Papyrus: The Plant That Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars” The history of Egypt boggles the mind. By any standard the scale of achievement was enormous, but ...

Discover the 9 most famous Egyptian monuments. Learn about the Great Pyramid to Abu Simbel, with history, facts, and must-see ...

In a significant victory for cultural heritage preservation, Egypt has successfully repatriated 36 stolen antiquities from the United States, marking another milestone in the nation's ongoing campaign ...

After 18 days of protests that spilled out from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, President Hosni Mubarak hands power to military’s ruling body, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Mubarak’s former prime ...