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 ...

CAIRO - Egypt's antiquities minister, ... Hawass, 64, started out as an inspector of antiquities in 1969 and rose to become one of the most recognizable names in Egyptology.

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 ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a series of tombs dating back around 4,300 years at Saqqara, including a sarcophagus holding the oldest known ancient Egyptian mummy that is covered with gold.

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

Archaeologists in Luxor, Egypt, have made a new discovery by unearthing ancient Egyptian tombs of officials who worked in the Egyptian government. They say it may lead to more cultural tourism.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...