Azza Farouq, dean of Cairo University's Faculty of Archaeology, has revealed that 3000 unregistered antiquities were found recently in the rest rooms of the faculty's museum on campus.
“Some pieces were destroyed by the humidity,” she said.
Museum (...)
Egypt's Cabinet has approved new legislation on trade union freedoms, consenting to pass the law within days. The new law would eliminate many of the constraints imposed on workers' unions under Law No 35 (1976), which outlined the structural and (...)
A number of items have gone missing from the museum at Cairo University's faculty of archaeology, according to a press statement from the university on Wednesday.
The statement said that a few ancient coins have gone missing from the museum, which (...)
The trade unionist's battle at Torah Cement, a unit of the Suez Cement group of Companies (SCGC), continues in spite of administrative resistance. SCGC is a subsidiary of the multinational Italcementi Group, the world's fifth biggest cement maker. (...)
In a talk show on Thursday, prominent media personality Emad Adib said that a number of Egyptian businessmen had sent their money abroad after the eruption of Tuesday's anti-government demonstrations.
He also expected businessmen to leave the (...)
In the first test of how legislation prohibiting smoking in all public places will play out with Egyptians, Al-Masry Al-Youm has observed violations of a pilot procedural ban that is gradually being implemented in government agencies and on public (...)
Egypt contains 22 percent of the world's landmines, according to the chairman of an anti-mine organization.
"There are 22 million mines on Egypt's land, covering 868,000 acres of its best soil," said Magdy Diab, the chairman of the Arab Society to (...)
Visitors to the town of Hawamdiya in Giza Governorate might stand on the banks of the Nile River and admire its beauty, but for Hawamdiya residents, the river is a source of sorrow.
Many in Hawamdiya believe that the Nile, which is polluted with (...)
The 2008 Dweiqa landslide tragedy -- which took the lives of hundreds of people -- is still vivid in the memory of local residents, who continue to live in fear of boulders crashing down upon them. All they can do is pray for God's protection from (...)
The platform is full. People have been waiting a long time for the train. Some are sitting on the floor -- it's been a long day for them.
Then they hear the siren -- the train's finally coming. They start to move. A 60-year-old woman leans on her (...)
At first sight, with the women of Al-Hassanein Village washing their clothes and cookware on the banks of the Nile, the casual visitor might think he or she was witnessing a scene from the middle ages.
The unpaved streets of the village, which (...)