Pharaoh Ramesses II holding an Egyptian passport may sound like something out of a bizarre pub quiz, but it’s not a joke. Credit: Colin Hepburn / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 It sounds like something out of ...

When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried to reattach it with glue. When the botched restoration was noticed it made ...

No life is ever untouched by moments of uncertainty, and for Sid Grauman, the American entrepreneur behind Hollywood’s iconic Egyptian Theatre, a historic movie theater located on Hollywood Boulevard, ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been unearthed. Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive ...

Doctors at the Suez Medical Complex have successfully reattached a completely amputated hand in a groundbreaking 12-hour surgery, marking the first time such a procedure has been performed in a public ...

In December and January, a team of American and Egyptian archaeologists excavated the roughly 3,600-year-old tomb near the Abydos archaeological site, on the edge of the desert west of the Nile ...

Smaller cobra breeds, such as Egyptian Cobra or Spitting Cobra, have less muscle mass and cannot generate enough force for powerful strikes against more oversized prey items. Cobras rely mainly on ...

Egypt's fish farming sector is under pressure as a sharp depreciation of the Egyptian pound drives up feed costs, reports All About Feed. Prices for fish feed have nearly doubled over the past ...

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A decade ago, some cleaners at the Egyptian Museum damaged Tutankhamun’s burial mask. The opening of the impressive Grand Egyptian Museum was repeatedly delayed. But there is little risk that ...