CAIRO -- Egypt on Thursday said it uncovered several 4,300-year-old tombs in Saqqara as it continues a series of discoveries in the ancient burial ground. The tombs date back to the Fifth and ...

Egyptian antiquities workers found a 4,300-year-old mummy. AP The team was working to uncover a cemetery of fifth and sixth-dynasty tombs dating back to the 25th century B.C near the Step Pyramid ...

The largest of the mummies that were unearthed at the ancient necropolis is said to belong to a man called Khnumdjedef - a priest, inspector and supervisor of nobles.

During an inspection in the governorate of Luxor, Egypt, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mohamed Ismail Khaled, explained the work carried out for the restoration and ...

Khaled began his career as an inspector in the Pyramids Antiquities area. ... He worked as a visiting professor at the Institute of Near East and Civilizations in the Department of Egyptian ...

Outrage and concern haven’t abated since a video of maintenance workers hammering away at Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza went viral late last year. In the clip, two workers in high visibility ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathy took part in the inspection tour along with the director of UNESCO's regional office for Egypt and Sudan, Nuria Sanz.

The Spanish embassy in Egypt in cooperation with the Luxor Museum will organize an exhibition under the rubric “Antiquities Inspection Tours to Upper Egypt in the 19th Century and the Archive of ...