Egypt squatters evicted from Luxor tombs after 50-year battle
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A 50-year-old battle to evict squatters from one of Egypt's most renowned archaeological sites, the West Bank of Luxor, was finally settled when authorities began demolitions.
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Nearly 2,000 Egyptian civil servants have ended a sit-in outside government headquarters in Cairo after winning a battle to change their status and increase their salaries, local newspapers reported.
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Archaeologists unveiled Sunday the tomb of a member of a powerful family that governed a swath of western Egypt about 2,500 years ago, along with a dozen recently discovered mummies from Roman times.
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Egypt's top Coptic priest retreats to a monastery in the desert to show the grievances of the Christian minority.
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CAIRO -- A swarm of pink-bodied locusts descended on Egypt&#39;s capital Wednesday, sending residents scurrying for cover as the swarms banged against windows and dropped onto cars.
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The world's oldest Semitic passages&#8212;spells found deep within an ancient pyramid&#8212;show that the Egyptians turned to neighboring Canaanites for help fending off venomous snakes.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Egyptian troops closed the last breach in Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip Sunday, ending 12 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory, witnesses and Hamas security officials said.
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Baghdad, Sept. 25 (NNN): In the third kidnapping of foreigners in the Iraqi capital in less than three weeks, armed men have snatched two Egyptians from their office in Baghdad.
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Archaeologists unveil the latest finds at the Saqqara necropolis, or city of the dead, near Cairo.
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Cairo - The Sinai resort bombings were Egypt&#39;s first major terrorist attacks since the 1997 Luxor massacre by radical Islamists, but government officials and analysts said on Saturday they probably don&#39;t signal a resumption of militant activity in Egypt
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Excavators discovered 20 gilded mummies in the Bahariya oasis in western Egypt, the government's council of antiquities said Tuesday.
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The centuries-old search for the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt&#39;s most famous female pharaoh, may finally have ended.
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MAYO, Sudan  - Hashim Khalil Osman peeks out from  the remains of his hut, partly bulldozed and then patched up  with plastic sacking, to see if help has arrived to alleviate  the misery of life in the slum suburbs of Khartoum.
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Three bombs killed at least 30 people in Egyptian Red Sea resorts packed with Israeli tourists. Dozens more were buried under rubble and thousands fleed home over the border after the attack.
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Ex-soldiers from Haiti&#39;s disbanded army occupied the plundered estate of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for a third day yesterday, refusing to leave the compound unarmed and raising fears of a confrontation with UN
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Egypt sent a convicted Israeli spy home after eight years in jail and Israel released six Egyptian infiltrators Sunday in the clearest sign of a warming of relations strained by a Palestinian uprising.
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A tunnel used by Palestinian weapons smugglers along the Egyptian border collapsed today, burying several people inside. Israeli military sources said the tunnel collapsed while an unknown number of Palestinians