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In Cairo’s City of the Dead, where homes are mausoleums and communities have grown among the graves, residents speak out ...

It symbolises us,” says Aya Abdel Raouf, one half of the Egyptian brand Okhtein, which she co-founded with her sister, Mounaz ...

Hundreds converge on Tahrir to commemorate Egypt's 23 July Revolution, slain activists. Two parallel events take place in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square: one commemorating the 6 ...

Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, met with the European Union's (EU) special representative for the Middle East peace process, Sven Koopmans, on Sunday in Cairo to discuss ongoing ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Archaeologists uncovered Old Kingdom tombs in Aswan’s Qubbat al-Hawa, Egypt, shedding light on a key transitional period in ...

Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

Among several painted murals, archaeologists highlighted a striking image of “a multitude of eyes centred on a single face,” which they interpret as a Coptic symbol of spiritual vigilance.