ministry of antiquities
Egypt retrieves remnants of mummy smuggled to US in 1927
Archaeology
April 11, 2018
Egypt retrieves remnants of mummy smuggled to US in 1927
Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities received three artifacts – remnants of a mummy – from the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday after…
Ministry of Antiquities reveals discovery of Greco-Roman temple near Siwa
Archaeology
April 5, 2018
Ministry of Antiquities reveals discovery of Greco-Roman temple near Siwa
The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities discovered on Wednesday the front section of the Greco-Roman temple…
Photos: King Merneptah pillar arrives to permanent display at GEM
Archaeology
March 12, 2018
Photos: King Merneptah pillar arrives to permanent display at GEM
The Pillar of Merneptah, the fourth king of the 19th Dynasty and the son of King Ramses II, who ruled…
Photos: Matrouh Museum promises an exciting tourism future for the seaside city
Egypt
March 2, 2018
Photos: Matrouh Museum promises an exciting tourism future for the seaside city
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated the first museum in Matrouh yesterday through video conference from New Alamein City. The museum…
Parts of huge King Ramses II statue discovered in Aswan
Archaeology
February 28, 2018
Parts of huge King Ramses II statue discovered in Aswan
The Egyptian expedition working on the groundwater treatment project at the Kom Ombo Temple in Aswan discovered parts of a…
Archaeologists in Egypt begin radar scans for secret chamber in Tutankhamun’s tomb
Archaeology
February 2, 2018
Archaeologists in Egypt begin radar scans for secret chamber in Tutankhamun’s tomb
In 2015 a British Egyptologist said he found evidence of a hidden chamber behind King Tutankhamun’s lavish tomb. Archaeologists have…
Three burial chambers engraved with hieroglyphics discovered in Giza
Science
February 1, 2018
Three burial chambers engraved with hieroglyphics discovered in Giza
The antiquities ministry’s archaeological committee discovered on Thursday three burial wells carved into a rock containing funerary material, in Abu Sair,…
300 new trains for Egypt to come at cost of increased ticket prices
Egypt
January 29, 2018
300 new trains for Egypt to come at cost of increased ticket prices
Minister of Transport Hesham Arafat said on Sunday that as part of an agreement with the Arab Organization for Industrialization…
Graeco-Roman Museum resumes renovation after 7-year suspension
Culture
January 28, 2018
Graeco-Roman Museum resumes renovation after 7-year suspension
The Ministry of Antiquities resumed preliminary renovation work of the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria on Saturday with an initial cost totaled…
Antiquities Ministry to restore historic Al-Sharaybi bathhouse in Islamic Cairo
Archaeology
December 22, 2017
Antiquities Ministry to restore historic Al-Sharaybi bathhouse in Islamic Cairo
The Permanent Committee for Islamic and Coptic Monuments approved a project to restore the Al-Sharaibi bathhouse in the area of…