antiquities

A 3400-year-old statue of King Amenhotep III -- thought to be the largest of its kind -- was discovered in…

Armed Forces personnel arrested two students and four workers on Sunday for excavating artifacts west of Cairo in 6th of…

Madrid--Thieves stole around 1,000 relics from museums and archeological sites across Egypt since protests against the government broke out in…

Egypt's interim Prime Minister Essam Sharaf appointed Zahi Hawass head of the new Ministry of Antiquities Wednesday. Sharaf commissioned Hawass,…

Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, an official from the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said on Thursday that around 800 artifacts from the…

Egyptian Museum Curator Tarek al-Awady said 54 antiquities were stolen from the museum on 28 January, the day police withdrew…

The Egyptian Department of Antiquities has recovered a statue of Akhenaton, one of eight items stolen by looters from the…

Workers in Abu Yasseen village in Sharqiya Governorate found three pharaonic coffins and other artefacts while digging as part of…

Fifteen percent of antiquities in Egypt’s Nile Delta, as well as Northern and central Egypt, are being stolen by residents,…

Cairo--Egypt's antiquities council said on Wednesday that New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to send back treasures believed…