During a press conference, the antiquities minister said Saturday’s was not the last discovery of the year, but that there will be another one next month before Christmas celebrations Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany announced on Saturday at a press conference a new discovery in the Saqqara necropolis carried out by an Egyptian archaeological mission...Read More

Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Anany has said that the new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is set to be officially inaugurated in 2020, saying the ministry has strict directives from the country’s political leadership for the opening to be held that year. El-Anany said that the entrance tickets are to be priced at EGP 5...Read More

AFAR, an award-winning travel magazine, ranked Egypt fourth among the world’s 10 Fastest Growing Tourist Destinations, listing Tajikistan in the number one spot followed by Ecuador, Iran, Uganda, Comoros and other less-common travel destinations. Egypt was spotted on the top of the list with 36.8 percent growth in its tourism sector, and this is not...Read More

Uma catacumba com diversas múmias e estátuas foi descoberta por uma equipe formada por arqueólogos egípcios e japoneses na província de Guizé, no Egito. A descoberta é supostamente datada dos séculos I e II, da época romana, segundo um comunicado do Ministério das Antiguidades do Egito. Os arqueólogos estavam escavando uma área inexplorada no nordeste...Read More

An Japanese-Egyptian mission directed by professor Nozomu Kawai of Kanazawa University has discovered a Roman catacomb from the 1st or 2nd century AD during excavation on the eastern rock escarpment of the North Saqqara plateau. “This area had never been previously investigated by an archaeological mission,” Kawai told Ahram Online. Kawai explains that the catacomb...Read More

The coffins, which contained mummies, were found by an Egyptian archaeological mission in October in Asasif Necropolis on Luxor’s west bank Thirty painted, anthropoid wooden coffins uncovered last month in Asasif have arrived to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) to be put on display for its opening at the end of 2020. Mostafa Waziri, the...Read More

Part of the dazzling ancient Egyptian coffins discovered in El-Assasif – ET CAIRO – 11 November 2019: An official source in the Upper Egypt Antiquities Sector in Luxor Governorate revealed that 30 archaeological coffins have been transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum. The coffins were among the findings of the Egyptian archaeological mission working in...Read More

EGYPT archaeologists are currently probing a “very strange animal,” which might be “a lion or lioness,” Minister of Antiquities Dr Khaled El-Enany told us in an exclusive interview. Egypt minister says ‘very strange’ animal has been discovered The ancient Egyptians held cats in the highest esteem, with penalties for injuring or killing the feline animals and around 3,000BC,...Read More

Queen Nefertiti CAIRO – 6 November 2019: Acclaimed Egyptian Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced in London on the side-lines of Tutankhamun exhibition that Queen Nefertiti could be one of the mummies discovered at the Valley of Kings. Hawass added that using the modern DNA techniques” we can now if Queen Nefertiti is one of the mummies...Read More