Noticias de Egipto

Discovery Channel will produce three promotional films about the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which is scheduled to open in 2020, the Ministry of Tourism said on Sunday. These films are part of the partnership established by the Tourism Ministry with Discovery announced in September, the ministry said in a statement. The films will be shown...Read More

Three people, at least two of them women, were buried in the city of Luxor some 3,500 years ago. A team of French archeologists has discovered their coffins in the necropolis of al-Asasif, complete with original paint. Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confirmed the latest archeological discovery to come from the ancient city of Luxor— three painted...Read More

The tomb, near Saqqara, a vast necropolis south of Cairo, belonged to a senior official named KhuwyHe is believed to have been a nobleman during the Fifth Dynasty, which ruled over Egypt about 4,300 years ago Mohamed Mujahid, head of the Egyptian mission which discovered the tomb of the ancient Egyptian nobleman “Khewi”, takes a...Read More

Itinerario | Información general 18:00 Recogida en el hotel de Zona Piramides (Hotel Mercure Le Sphinx) Salida del punto de partida, en la zona de las piramides. Durante el recorrido hacia el cento de El Cairo, podreis ver una panoramica de toda la ciudad de El Cairo Iluminada. 18:30 Recogida del Hotel en el Centro...Read More

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