There are few cultural projects that have so perfectly captured both a nation’s ambition and its inertia as the ...

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Under US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, Turkey and Qatar mediated talks between Israel and Hamas in Sharm El ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi witnesses this Saturday evening the opening of the Great Egyptian Museum, with the ...

Located near the ancient Pyramids of Giza just outside Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum has finally opened after two decades ...

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On Nov. 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist following a peace rally in ...

While excavating in the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptian worker on an archaeological dig discovered a partially obscured step ...

The United States has circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for the creation of a temporary ...

One of the Mamluk-era tunnels carved into tufa rock at Nahal 'Amal, revealing the sophisticated hydraulic engineering that powered medieval sugar production. (Azriel Yechezkel / A. Frumkin et al., ...

Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the Hellenistic world.

In Egypt, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest museum in the world dedicated to ancient Egyptian civilization, was ...