CAIRO (Reuters) - In a sprawling Cairo neighbourhood known as the City of the Dead, life and death are side by side. Amid a housing crisis in Egypt, and with the population of the capital estimated at ...

New discoveries near city of Aswan reveal burial chambers from Old and Middle Kingdom periods, offering fresh insight into ancient funerary traditions - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have uncovered a complex of ancient industrial workshops and part of a Roman-era necropolis in Egypt’s western Nile ...

Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minster said on Saturday archaeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo. Khalid el-Anany said at least 59 sealed sarcophagi ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced Monday the discovery of parts of an 18th-century mudbrick residential city dating to the era of Sheikh Al-Arab Hammam in Qena Governorate, ...

MINYA, Egypt-An Egyptian archaeological mission has found a necropolis holding at least 17 mummies near the Nile Valley city of Minya, in the first such find in the area, the antiquities ministry said ...

An artwork depicting the seasons of the ancient Egyptian calendar has gone missing from the famed Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. A British mission working in the tomb discovered that the piece had ...

Cairo — A rare 4,000-year-old limestone relief has vanished from a tomb in Egypt's famous Saqqara Necropolis, officials say, in the second major apparent theft of an antiquity in just weeks. The ...

CAIRO (AP) — A limestone pharaonic painting has gone missing from Egypt's famed Saqqara necropolis, becoming the latest artifact to disappear in a country known for its rich and lengthy history. The ...