Cairo — Thirty-six historical artifacts illegally removed from Egypt have been recovered from the United States in cooperation with U.S. authorities, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said ...

Cairo — As I write this story, I am in my room overlooking the main square of Cairo, ironically called Tahrir Square, which means Liberty in Arabic. The square is buzzing with what news agencies ...

CAIRO — Far from Egypt’s busy capital, minority communities are struggling to preserve and protect their unique culture and languages from extinction. With a population of over 118 million, Egypt is ...

The three men lived in the New Kingdom period more than 3,000 years ago Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

In reliefs and monuments spanning 3,000 years, the pharaoh holds the heka in his left hand, resting it upon his shoulder. The image encodes a specific claim: Pharaoh is the shepherd of his people; he ...

Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic faiths say God spoke with Moses, another unmistakable sound rings out: the incessant drilling of construction work. In the remote, ...

As violent clashes between pro- and anti-government protesters in Egypt have become the leading images of the country’s conflict, eyes are also on President Barack Obama. Publicly, his administration ...

"The artifacts were handed over by the American authorities to the Egyptian Embassy in the U.S., and they arrived in Egypt about two weeks ago," Nevine El-Aref, the ministry's media adviser, told CBS ...