Last week, Egyptologist Fatma Keshk gave a lecture at the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo on courtyards in ancient Egypt.

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...

Egypt has experienced rapid population growth in recent decades. Between 1986 to 2018, the number of people in the country ...

Egypt has long been a popular choice for British travellers, but Israel’s attack on Iran and the strikes that followed have ...

Elsewhere, the Foreign Office advises against all travel to within 20km of the border with Libya, which is on the western ...

They've been hidden for more than 3,000 years, well before the time of Jesus Christ. But now, remarkable new excavations finally uncover three long-lost tombs from ancient Egypt. 'Made by pure ...

Seclusion has kept these desert gems, if not secret, then still wild. Egypt’s oases are time capsules of millions of years of human and natural history, from when whales had legs to the Roman ...

Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered two ancient tombs dating back to the Roman period in the country's Western Desert. The Antiquities Ministry says on Tuesday the excavations took place in the ...

A journey into Egypt's western desert. The Week UK. Sat, May 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM UTC. 2 min read. ... Amid these "unfathomable distances" lie ancient Christian monasteries, ...

Christian monasticism began in the Egyptian desert: in the 4th century, St Anthony – later known as the "father of all monks" – went there to live in an empty tomb, and was tempted by the devil.

Egypt is full of ancient wonders but few are as astonishing as these walking whales, ... But I was heading to Siwa, the furthest oasis in Egypt’s western desert, and my time was short.