The seized items include a funerary statue valued at $6 million that likely came from an archaeological site near the ancient city of Memphis.

There was a reason Southern businessmen and thinkers were inspired by ancient Egypt: To them, it served as proof that all great civilizations were hierarchal societies sustained by enslaved labor.

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FILE - The UNESCO logo hangs from a podium in Paris, Nov. 14, 2023. PARIS (AP) — UNESCO is slated to have its first director from the Arab world after an Egyptian former tourism and antiquities ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed one of the New Kingdom's largest fortresses in North Sinai's Sheikh Zayed, spanning 8,000 sqm along the ancient Way of Horus. Dating to 1550–1070 BC, the site ...

Hidden beneath the sands of Egypt's Giza Plateau, three precisely engineered shafts have been rediscovered that may unlock access to a vast underground network whispered about by ancient Greek ...

"Divine Egypt," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features nearly 250 artifacts representing the rich pantheon of Egyptian deities ...

BRICS has just expanded to 11. Each new country will bring a unique cultural perspective and new energy for the movement of making the unipolar world a multipolar world. Four of the new members of ...

PARIS — UNESCO is slated to have its first director from the Arab world after an Egyptian former tourism and antiquities minister, Khaled el-Anani, was nominated by the agency's executive board Monday ...