Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery in Egypt, unearthing a 4,000-year-old tomb belonging to an ancient prince.

Amira joined Newsweek in 2025 from The Wall Street Journal and had previously worked at the Daily News Egypt. She studied journalism at the Modern Sciences and Arts University in Cairo.

Marble mining is a complex process that relies on powerful machinery to extract the stone from quarries. Heavy machines like bulldozers, excavators, and diamond wire saws are used to break and cut ...

Amira joined Newsweek in 2025 from The Wall Street Journal and had previously worked at the Daily News Egypt. She studied journalism at the Modern Sciences and Arts University in Cairo.

A press release described the findings as “groundbreaking,” and if proven true, could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt. However, independent experts have raised serious concerns about the study. A ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet tall. Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ...

Ahram Online, Sunday 30 Mar 2025 Egypt's Dar Al-Ifta, the country's authority on Islamic rulings, has sought to clarify confusion over its announcement that Eid Al-Fitr will begin on Monday, 31 ...

The Red Sea is a major hub for Egypt's crucial tourism industry, a pillar of the economy, in which Russian tourists play an increasing part. Egypt also attracts tourists with its great pyramids of ...

Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa has officially declared Monday, March 31, 2025, as the first day of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan. The announcement comes after the Shawwal crescent moon, which signals ...

six people - including two young children - drowned and many more struggled to get to safety when the semi-submersible Sindbad vessel sank off the coast of Hurghada in Egypt. The horror unfolded ...

The submarine, run by Biblio Globus Egypt Tours, was carrying 45 tourists and five Egyptian crew members, according to the Russian Embassy in Cairo. They revealed that six Russians died ...