This two-foot-tall basalt statue depicts Udjahorresnet, an Egyptian courtier who held high positions under the final two pharaohs of the 26th Dynasty (664–526 B.C.) and the first two pharaohs of the ...

Throughout ancient Egyptian history, taxes were very much part of daily life. Most Egyptians were farmers who owed the state both a period of labor service and a portion of their annual harvest. The ...

When the country's museum collections fell into the Rapid Support Forces' hands, they became a real weapon in the conflict ...

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Born in Egypt to Sudanese parents, artist Amado Alfadni dedicates Kushite, his current exhibition at Gallery Cairo, to the ...

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More than 3,000 years ago, an earthquake toppled two monumental statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. Now, after decades of restoration work, the artworks, called the Colossi of ...

Naguib Mahfouz Cafe, named after Egypt’s Nobel laureate who immortalised Cairo in words It was 11:11 on the morning of October 26 when I first stood before the Pyramids of Giza. The sand was stirred ...

In a quiet corner of New York’s Brooklyn Museum, a luminous alabaster sculpture of an Egyptian queen commands attention. Just 16 inches high, the sculpture is modest in scale but arresting in presence ...

Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at drawing more tourists ...

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Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The giant alabaster statues, known as the Colossi ...