On Friday, a delegation from the Supreme Council of Antiquities traveled to Australia to retrieve 122 artifacts, dating back to Pharaonic times and the Greco-Roman era, illegally smuggled out of Egypt. The delegation is headed by Director of the (...)
The Supreme Council of Antiquities employees closed the temple of Abydos in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag and closed all storage units that maintain the museum Tuesday, in solidarity with archeologists striking across Egypt.
The Temple (...)
Archaeologists working in the Nubian fund closed down six archaeological sites in Aswan, including the Temple of Abu Simbel, the Temple of Wadi el-Seboo, the Temple of the Mayor and a number of museums located on Lake Nasser, in protest against the (...)
UNESCO will cooperate with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) to maintain Egyptian archaeological sites listed on the World Heritage List.
Mohamed Abdel Fattah, the Secretary General of the SCA, met yesterday with Tarek Shawky, director (...)
Mohammed Abdel Fattah, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, inspected the ongoing renovations at the step pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara with General Mohammed el-Sheikha, head of the developments unit of the council (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities will submit its budget for inspection. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Maksoud, Secretary General of the SCA, said he will transfer the authority's financial records in full to regulatory agencies for (...)
A group of Egyptian artists are enrolled in a workshop hosted by the Kurdish Fine Art Gallery in Vienna, from July 11 to 20.
Artists Hala Sharouny, Tasneem Abdulla, Mary Hathout, Lubna Abdel Wahab and Faris Alsaijy are participating in the (...)
A 5,200-year-old Ancient Egyptian drawing has been uncovered in Upper Egypt. An archaeological mission sponsored by Yale University and the University of Bologna discovered the artifact, according to Egypt's Minister of Antiquities Zahi (...)
A French archaeological mission working in the area of Tanis, in the Sharqiya governorate, revealed they have discovered hundreds of colored blocks with bas –relief carvings. The blocks were used to build the walls of a sacred lake in the temple of (...)
The Ministry of Antiquities denied the theft of artifacts belonging to different sectors of the ministry during the last period. It said there was no truth to reports saying that 4,200 artifacts have been moved from the Museum of Islamic Art in (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Minister of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, addressed the head of a Jewish society in Germany and asked him to deliver any Egyptian antiquities the society possesses back to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.
A Jewish archaeologist (...)
Seventy graves in an unofficial extension of a Muslim cemetery, located in Mit Rehna archaeological site, were removed by a committee. The committee was composed of members of the armed forces, the security director of 6 October Governorate, the (...)
Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has decided to postpone the opening of the National Museum of Suez, which was scheduled to open Thursday morning.
Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass told Youm7 that the Prime Minister notified him of the (...)
Egypt's Minister of Antiquities will cooperate with Interpol to retrieve stolen antiquities. Zahi Hawass met Thursday afternoon with a delegation of the multinational task force dedicated to the retrieval of stolen antiquities and the protection of (...)