The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have brought to light a remarkably preserved funerary papyrus that specialists are already ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Ahmed (Amir El-Masry) belongs to an Egyptian family accustomed to defeat. The soccer team they root for can't win a single ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes travels to Egypt to explore its extraordinary links to one of the most famous names from ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than ...

When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, he brought along an 'army' of scholars, whose studies of this ancient culture became the foundation of Egyptology. Jean-Léon Gérôme’s painting “Bonaparte Before ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Terrorists opened fire at a mosque in North Sinai, Egypt, killing more than 300 people present there for Friday prayers.

After missing the last edition of the FIFA World Cup™, Egypt have fought back to qualify for their fourth appearance at the tournament. The Pharaohs booked their place after a commanding qualifying ...