antiquities

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…

The so-called "Gospel of Judas," which US authorities handed over to Egypt in July, will not be displayed in any…

A group of Egyptian citizens have filed a complaint to the office of the attorney-general demanding the cancelation of a…

A young man who had been digging for relics under his home