Alexandria port received yesterday morning the cruise ship ‘Neviktor’ coming from Turkey, with about 4000 tourists from different nationalities went at seven Am with more than 80 bus to Cairo and Giza to visit the Ancient Monuments. The ship will leave the port of Alexandria this morning returning to Italy.Read More
Festival Travel Egypt Dr. Ahmed Nazif, the Prime Minister honored yesterday in the Smart Village in the Sixth of October champions Egypt in the first Olympic Games for young people, which was held in Singapore. The Egyptian mission got seven medals in the session, and achieved the mission of the center 24 of 204 countries...Read More
Archaeologists have discovered a large structure to the northeast of the 4,600 year old Bent Pyramid, which may be the remains of an ancient harbor. It connects to one of the pyramid’s temples by way of a 140 meter long causeway. The discoveries were made by a team from the Cairo department of the German...Read More
The American-Egyptian mission from Yale University has stumbled upon what appears to be the remains of a substantial settlement. The city is a thousand years earlier than the major surviving ancient remains at the Umm Mawagir area in Kharga Oasis. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that the settlement is dated to the Second Intermediate...Read More
The Hibis temple is oriented along an east-west axis and consists of a pylon, open court, pillared hall and sanctuary. The temple would have originally also had a lake and boat quay along its eastern side. The lake would have allowed access to the temple for festival purposes. Today the first thing a visitor encounters...Read More
The Egyptian Museum, Cairo opened a new temporary exhibit entitled: Coins through the Ages on August 10. Over the past eight years the Egyptian Museum has hosted a series of temporary exhibitions, the most recent of which focused on five artifacts which were repatriated to Egypt. The temporary exhibition space (Hall 44) has also hosted...Read More
Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed the most ancient written document ever found in the Holy City a tiny fragment of a letter thought to be addressed to Akhenaten, the “heretic” pharaoh who ruled Egypt during the 14th century B.C. Discovered outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, the document consists of a minuscule clay fragment — about...Read More
The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt Announced that the Egyptian archaeological mission discovered two tombs in Saqqara, located about 40 km south of Cairo, belonged to the Chief Clerk of the King and his son for nearly 4300 years. The head of the mission, Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Council on Wednesday said...Read More
As part of the Ministry of Culture’s initiative to refurbish and develop museums around Egypt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is reorganizing the layout of the Beni-Suef museum in Upper Egypt. Coffin in the collection of the Beni Suef Museum, Cultural Minister Farouk Hosni explained that the museum refurbishment involved extending the museum’s display...Read More
The Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced that a tunnel in the tomb of King Seti I (1314-1304 BC) has been discovered by Dr. Zahi Hawass and his team in the Valley of the Kings. They’ve been searching for this tunnel for over twenty years in the West Bank necropolis. Dr. Hawass, Secretary General of...Read More
