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Articles of the author Nevine El Aref
Egyptian archaeologists unearth collection of religious ritual tools at Temple of Pharaohs north of Cairo
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a collection of ancient tools that were used in religious rituals from the Temple of the Pharaohs (Boto) in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate north of Cairo. The new discovery comes as part of an archaeological (...)

18 - 09 - 2021
New lighting in Al-Darb Al-Ahmar
TO ILLUMINATE the beautiful architecture of the eastern façade of the Beit Al-Razzaz in the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar district of Historic Cairo, a new cool-lighting system has been installed, writes Nevine El-Aref. The system is made up of 20 special lamps (...)

31 - 08 - 2021
Esna in the limelight
The Upper Egyptian town of Esna is located around 55 km south of Luxor on the west bank of the Nile. Known as Senat in ancient Egypt, and later as Latopolis by the Greeks, Esna, also known also as "the city of fish", as the perch was once worshipped (...)

31 - 08 - 2021
Restoration in Historic Cairo
Historic Cairo, with its famous mosques, madrassas (schools), sabil-kuttab (water fountains and Quranic schools), hammams (bathhouses) and wekalas (trade centres), is one of the oldest mediaeval cities in the world. Since 1979, it has figured on UN (...)

24 - 08 - 2021
Royal boat's last journey
Since its discovery in 1954 inside a sealed pit located at the southern side of the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau, its hull made up of 1,224 intact pieces of cedar wood, the royal boat of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu has always sparked (...)

10 - 08 - 2021
Egypt transports King Khufu's first boat to Grand Egyptian Museum
Egypt started on Friday evening transporting the first Khufu solar boat from its current display in a special museum located at the southern side of the Great Pyramid of Khufu on the Giza Plateau to its new permanent exhibition at the Grand Egyptian (...)

07 - 08 - 2021
Recreating the Sultan's palace
When Belgian industrialist Baron Empain started the construction of the Heliopolis suburb 10km northwest of Cairo from 1905 onwards, he had the support of Boghos Nubar, the son of Egyptian prime minister Nubar Pasha. Once finished, it was a (...)

03 - 08 - 2021
In Photos: Karnak Temples' Great Hypostyle Hall undergoes restoration
In preparation for the gala opening of the Sphinxes Avenue development project in Luxor, the Karnak Temples' Great Hypostyle Hall is under restoration. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that the (...)

01 - 08 - 2021
Developing Fustat Park
Plans are underway to develop the 590 feddans of the Fustat Hills Park as part of an initiative to develop Historic Cairo. On Sunday, Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli visited the Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque in Fustat in Historic Cairo to monitor the work (...)

27 - 07 - 2021
Statue of Old Kingdom priest recovered from Netherlands
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in collaboration with the Egyptian Embassy in Amsterdam and the concerned authorities in the Netherlands , succeeded in repatriating an ancient Egyptian statue of an Old Kingdom priest Nikaw-Ptah that was (...)

26 - 07 - 2021
In Photos: The sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion in Alexandria reveals new archaeological treasures
During an underwater excavation at the sunken city of Heracleion in Abu Qir bay in Alexandria, the Egyptian-French mission, led by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM), uncovered remains of a military vessel and a funerary (...)

19 - 07 - 2021
A turning point?
The leaders of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan converged on Baghdad last week for a Tripartite Summit meeting meant to foster economic ties and coordinate political positions. The Summit could not have taken place at a more appropriate time due to the (...)

06 - 07 - 2021
Preparing for the GEM's grand opening
After the success of the Pharaohs Golden Parade, when a collection of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies were transported in early April from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to their final destination at the National Museum of Egyptian (...)

22 - 06 - 2021
Reopening 'Egypt's Versailles'
On the banks of the Nile in the Cairo district of Shubra Al-Kheima set in a splendid park planted with rare trees and shrubs stands 19th-century Egyptian ruler Mohamed Ali Pasha's Shubra Palace. Only part of the palace survives today, but following (...)

08 - 06 - 2021
Egypt fully vaccinates all tourism staff in Red Sea and South Sinai resorts
Egypt has fully vaccinated all staff working in key industries across both the Red Sea and South Sinai governorates, two of the country's tourism hotspots, as hotels and resorts gear up for the safe return of holidaymakers this summer. Staff working (...)

03 - 06 - 2021
Wooden edge of dome at Cairo's Al-Sultan Hassan Mosque collapses; no damage to monument
A new wooden edge of Alfawara dome at the open court of historic Cairo's Al-Sultan Hassan Mosque has collapsed without causing any damage to the monument. Osama Talaat, head of the Islamic, Coptic and Jewish antiquities, asserted the fallen piece is (...)

29 - 05 - 2021
Tickets for 'King of the Sun' exhibition in Prague sold out until June 6
Shortly after its reopening and after the lifting of Prague's COVID-19 lockdown, tickets for the 'Kings of the Sun' exhibition have sold out until June 6. Ibrahim Mostafa, the Inspector escorting the exhibition said that the exhibition, since its (...)

28 - 05 - 2021
New museums at Cairo Airport
Transit and business passengers at Cairo International Airport who do not have the time to visit Egypt's unique archaeological museums and sites will be able to see some of Egypt's history from this week when two museums were inaugurated by the (...)

25 - 05 - 2021
Site of Virgin Mary Tree to reopen
In the heavily populated Cairo district of Matareya stands an ancient sycamore, the Virgin Mary Tree, waiting for its official reopening, reports Nevine El-Aref. For decades, the site has attracted thousands of pilgrims because it is said to have (...)

25 - 05 - 2021
Egyptian Museum's outer gate is returned to its original location
A month after the Pharaohs' Golden Parade, the foliage-adorned iron gate of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir has been re-erected to its original location to once again decorate the museum's façade. The gate was dismantled almost three months ago and (...)

11 - 05 - 2021
Collection of rock-cut tombs uncovered in Al-Hamidiyah necropolis
A collection of rock-cut tombs was uncovered in the Al-Hamidiyah necropolis that is east of Sohag earlier today. These tombs were uncovered accidentally during the archaeological survey carried out at the necropolis to document its rock-cut (...)

11 - 05 - 2021
New operational hours for commercial, entertainment venues don't apply to Egypt's hotels: Tourism minister
Egypt has announced that the new two-week-long operational hours for commercial and entertainment venues will not be applied to beaches, cafes and restaurants at hotels countrywide, yet they will be applied to all other tourist cafes and restaurants (...)

07 - 05 - 2021
175-year-old Cairo Citadel clock to be repaired
The sound of the 175-year-old clock filling the northwestern arcade of the Mohamed Ali Mosque in Cairo's Salaheddin Citadel will soon be heard again by visitors after years in which it was not working. After its arrival in Cairo in 1845, the brass (...)

06 - 05 - 2021
A pregnant mummy: Not the first
Late last week, a team of Polish archaeologists from the Warsaw Mummy Project announced that they had discovered the first known pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy. The research was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science and revealed that (...)

05 - 05 - 2021
In Photos: Ancient tombs and prehistoric burials found in Nile Delta
A collection of 110 tombs from the Boto I and II, Naqada III, and the Second Intermediate Period eras have been uncovered in Kom Al-Khelgan in the Daqahliya governorate in the Nile Delta. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of (...)

27 - 04 - 2021
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