Excitement spread in Egypt after the country won it’s bid to host the 2021 World Handball Championship. The Country has been working on the bid for over a year. It’s a well-deserved victory. Winning the bid for the 2019 African Cup of nations has restored the confidence Egypt needed in handball, more so with the […]
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The 2019-2020 PSA Women’s World Championship, the most prestigious squash tournament of the season, will take place in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only remaining ancient wonder of the world, after an agreement was reached today between the Professional Squash Association (PSA), Egyptian events company I-Events and title sponsors CIB. Due to […]
Egypt Cleans and Removes Slums Near Oldest Jewish Cemeteries Source: Jewish Community in Cairo Egypt’s government began removing slums in the eastern part of the 1200-year-old Jewish cemeteries in Cairo’s Bassatine, which is the second oldest Jewish cemeteries in the world, according to a statement by the Jewish Community in Cairo. “Today the Egyptian government […]
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Tuesday that Egypt has been granted the hosting rights of the 2019 African Cup of Nations after winning the majority of votes. Egypt won 16 votes. One vote went to South Africa and another vote was abstained. Egypt will have six months to prepare for the kick-off […]
Egyptian Archaeologists Discover Several Ancient Egyptian Burials south of Cairo The Egyptian Archaeological mission directed by Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, discovered several burials to the south east of the White Pyramid of King Amenemhat II in Dahshur, 22 miles south of Cairo. Dr. Waziri said that the mission started […]
The Egyptian Museum new displays of Yuya and Thuya. On its 116th anniversary, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir revealed the new rooms showing the treasures of Yuya and Thuya in the same space where Tutankhamun’s objects were displayed but now mostly moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum which is expected to be opened in 2020.
Minister of Antiquities Dr. Khaled El-Enany announced today a new discovery made by an Egyptian archaeological mission during excavation work carried out since April until now at the area located on the stony edge of King Userkaf pyramid complex in Saqqara Necropolis. Cairo Governor, Major General Ahmed Rashid attended the announcement along with members of […]
Archaeologists working at a dig in Cairo have found several fragments of stone slabs with inscriptions that could be 4,000 years old, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities said. Some of the limestones date to the 12th (founded in 1991 BCE) and 20th dynasties, of the Middle and New Kingdoms, the ministry said on Tuesday. German Egyptologist […]
A collection of 614 artefacts were transported from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) by the pyramids on Monday. Osama Abu El-Kheir, general director of the Conservation Department at the GEM, said that the collection contains 11 objects from the treasure sof King Tutankhamun, among them the king’s diadem. […]
Chief of the General Tourist Guide Syndicate Hassan al-Nahla announced a plan to cooperate with tourism and aviation companies to organize low-cost one-day trips for tourists from hotels and resorts in the Red Sea, Sharm al-Sheikh and Luxor to Sphinx International Airport, west of Giza. Nahla said on Sunday that these trips will be launched […]