In a country where history is written in stone and soul, these five mosques stand as spiritual milestones. Each one holds the ...

The 4,300-year-old mummy was found at the bottom of a 15-metre shaft in a recently uncovered group of fifth and sixth dynasty tombs near the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, Zahi Hawass, director of the ...

Egypt's historic mosque of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, named after the sixth Fatimid caliph and located in old Cairo, was reopened for visitors on Monday, Feb. 27 after renovations.

Egypt’s oldest pyramid, erected about 4,500 years ago in Saqqara, might have been built using a hydraulic lift 1. The Step Pyramid of Djoser is surrounded by several unexplained structures.

Inside, they found what Hawass said was the oldest non-royal mummy ever discovered in Egypt. It was also the oldest mummy wrapped in gold leaf ever found in the country, he added.

Gaza’s oldest mosque, destroyed in an airstrike, was once a temple to Philistine and Roman gods, ... The area was primarily administered by Egypt until it was captured by Israel in 1967.

Egypt has reopened one of the world’s oldest synagogues and home to the most significant single trove of Jewish manuscripts. The Ben Ezra synagogue was inaugurated by Prime Minister Mostafa ...

Archeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt. The 4,300-year-old mummy was a rich, important 35-year-old man called Djed Sepsh, archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt ...

The skeleton is the oldest example of Homo sapiens remains found in Egypt and one of the oldest in the world, according to a study published March 22. However, ...