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.

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

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 ...

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 ...