CAIRO: A new statue was unearthed during the excavations in the area of Amenhotep III at the West Bank of the Nile River. The colored statue is made of quartzite, 10.65 meters, its weight 100 tons.
The excavations started in the site seven months (...)
CAIRO: Center of Creation Cinema of Cairo Opera House will present a documentary film on Friday October 28 about the Cairo Opera in the 40th anniversary of Cairo Opera burning.
Egyptian Minister of Culture Emaad Abu Ghazi and director of Cultural (...)
CAIRO: Permanent Committee of the Egyptian Archeology will allow foreign archeological missions to restore several monuments and sites around Egypt.
Several foreign archeological missions will do the restorations, including from the Polish (...)
CAIRO: Protesting archeology workers threatened to begin into work and hunger strikes, close all archeological sites, and steal monuments from museums and stores if their demands are not met.
Protestors are continuing their sit-in, which began (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian concerts and photos exhibitions about the January 25 Revolution will be performed and exhibited in six European countries including Vienna, Budapest, Slovakia, Bratislava, Maribor, and Venice. The events will start from September 6 (...)
CAIRO: Archeologist Mohammad Abdel Rahman considers himself an unknown hero of the January 25 Revolution.
After monuments were stolen from the Egyptian Museum during the unrest, Abdel Rahman masqueraded as an archeological broker. After two weeks (...)
CAIRO: After being the biggest open-air museum in the world since it was restored three years ago, Muizz Street in old Cairo turned into public car park due to the absence of security.
Thus the Islamic monuments are threatened day after day by (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will host a Ramadan festival in the Sareiatt al-Gabal at the Saladin Citadel of Cairo. This will be the third festival in as many years.
The festival will last through Ramadan 20.
The (...)
CAIRO: A number of 19 archeological pieces were restored from the Metropolitan Museum of Mew York and will be displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The Egyptian Museum finished all registry processes with the pieces belonging to the Pharaoh (...)
CAIRO: In response to his ousting from his one-day post as Minister of Antiquities, Abdel Fatah el-Banna told Youm7 the Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf did not inform him about the decision of resigning him. El-Banna said he will go to the (...)