Among the city's cultural and architectural highlights ... questioned whether the NAC is an appropriate use of funds. Egypt is facing one of its worst financial crises in decades, and the economy ...

A controversial new Egyptian capital city is being built 30 miles east of Cairo at the expense of $45bn. "Sprawled" across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, the "showy new ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

The border point had been closed after Israel invaded the southern city of Rafah in May but is opening again as part of the ...

DeAgostini/Getty Images Once Egypt's largest city, it dates back to King Akhenaten’s father, Amenhotep III, who ruled during a golden age of the empire. Art Images/Getty Images Considered the ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...