The serenity of the Saqqara Necropolis near Cairo was disturbed this week as Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany, actress Yosra, and a group of 52 ambassadors and cultural attachés of foreign, Arab and African countries flocked to the (...)
Egypt will continue to see relatively cool temperatures over the coming two days, with lows of around 13-14 degrees Celsius in the capital Cairo.
Highs in the capital and cities in Nile Delta are predicted at 23 degrees on Wednesday, and will (...)
Respected art collector and critic Mohamed Darwish describes Ahmed Shiha's collection of work as “mythological realism.” It is true that much of Shiha's work looks like it was chiselled straight out of the ancient temples of Aswan and Luxor.
In his (...)
Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany on Saturday toured Saqqara necropolis with a group of 52 foreign ambassadors and cultural attachés, to inspect a newly discovered tomb of a dignitary from the reign of king Djedkare.
Well-known Egyptian (...)
This weekend, over 1000 young people participated in a 2 KM run along the Luxor corniche, attended capacity building workshops and participated in an interactive theatre performance, as they rallied around population issues in Egypt.
This came as (...)
The Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag made the headlines this week as a result of several archaeological activities.
Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany and ambassadors from 40 foreign, Arab and African countries flocked to the area to witness (...)
"When I told my family and friends I am coming to Egypt, everyone said I should visit Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan. No one mentioned any other place which I should visit. When I used to inform people that I am looking for a green place to spend my (...)
Tamweely Microfinance has launched its new expansion strategy for 2019 which aims to increase the number of the company's branches and its portfolio size, introduce new financial products, and sign cooperation agreements with banks and financial (...)
“I learnt that a hero is a person who helps other people... a person who helps people live better lives… a person who helps them be happy… a person who helps them discover their skills… a person who helps them overcome problems… a person who helps (...)
As Nevine El-Aref wrote in Al-Ahram Weekly last week, there can be few residents or visitors to the French capital who are not aware that the “Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Pharaoh” exhibition has stopped off in Paris on the latest leg of a world (...)
The Minister of Antiquities, Khaled El-Anany, stated on Monday the completion of the Kom Ombo project to lower the underground water level at the site. The project comes with the help of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), (...)
The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, launched three centres of excellence to link Egyptian and American universities on Tuesday, in the presence of Egypt's Minister of Higher Education, (...)
The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, is visiting Egypt from 24 to 26 March for meetings with senior governmental officials, partners from civil society, entrepreneurs, as well as (...)
Weather across several parts of Egypt is expected to warm up during the day over the next two days, but wintry temperatures will continue at night.
High temperatures in the capital Cairo and cities in the Nile Delta are predicted to go up from 20 (...)
Egyptian actor Mahmoud Hemeda delivered a master class on acting skills and talked about his career during the Luxor African Film Festival, which took place from 15 to 21 March 2019.
The masterclass started with screening some scenes and trailers of (...)
Amid tremendous efforts from the government to revive local tourism, Egypt was announced as the number one destination among a list of 15 countries, which international billionaires plan to visit in 2019, according to a study held by Business (...)
Misr Insurance Company has signed a contract with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the company organising the tours of King Tutankhamun's belongings in many countries of the world to provide insurance coverage of $900m to the artefacts, an (...)
For thousands of years, we have been travelling north and south the river Nile, in various different vessels, ranging from pharaonic papyrus reed vessels to modern day 7-star luxury cruise boats.
The changing vessels throughout history have (...)
Half a century after the success of the last exhibition of the treasures of the ancient Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun to hit the French capital, a new exhibition, this time at the Grande Halle de la Villette rather than the Petit Palais, is (...)
The eighth Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF, 15-21 March) closed last week, having screened over 80 films in five competitions – the long narrative, long documentary, short, student project and freedom film programmes – and three out-of-competition (...)
The Minister of Health, Hala Zayed, announced on Monday that the ministry has examined 5 million school students since mid-February.
The first phase of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's initiative for detecting anaemia, obesity, and stunting was (...)
Ismail Abdel Hamid, adviser to the chairperson at the Egyptian Tourism Authority (ETA), affiliated to tourism ministry, called on Air India to re-launch it regular and direct flights to Egypt with the aim of boosting tourists' numbers between both (...)
Um Ismail, an uneducated widowed mother of three living in an impoverished village in Sohag in Upper Egypt, often has a hard time coping with looking after her elderly bed-ridden mother in her hometown and keeping her job in Cairo to provide food (...)
When the tomb of the boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died at the age of 19, was discovered in 1922 by archaeologist Howard Carter, the media frenzy that followed was incredible and continues to this day. The tomb alone attracts thousands of visitors (...)
Novel strategies to promote tourism and increase the number of visitors to Egypt were the focus of efforts by the Egyptian delegation spearheaded by the Ministry of Tourism at the ITB Berlin World Travel Fair held from 6 to 10 March in the German (...)
