Underwater archaeologists have stumbled across the remains of a pleasure barge dating from the first half of the 1st century ...

A severed right hand discovered in front of a Hyksos palace at Avaris (modern-day Tell el-Daba). It would have been chopped off and presented to the king (or a subordinate) in exchange for gold. This ...

A boy standing behind a barbed wire barricade looks at members of the Republican Guard who have closed a road leading to the presidential palace in Cairo Thursday. REUTERS CAIRO — The Egyptian army ...

Secretary-General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Mohamed Ismail Khaled and Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum Louis Ng signed a cooperation agreement to organize a major temporary ...

CAIRO (AP) — Three homemade bombs went off near Egypt’s presidential palace on Monday, killing two senior police officers and injuring 10 other people on the anniversary of mass protests that led to ...

Egypt is just months away from reopening the Baron Empain Palace after a $6m restoration project on the historic Cairo building. The Baron Empain Palace, also known as “Le Palais Hindou” or the Hindu ...

But the head of Egypt's election committee, Ismail Hamdi, announced that early voting on the referendum for Egyptians abroad would be postponed, signaling an attempt by Morsi's government to back down ...

CAIRO Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, ...

At Giza, evidence of the workforce that built the pyramids is slowly being uncovered in archaeological explorations. However, one piece of the fabric of ancient Egypt is still missing. There is no ...

CAIRO — The decades have done their work. Cavernous and crumbling, the Baron’s Palace is the sort of place where dreams go to die and ghost stories linger. The nearly 100-year-old landmark mansion, a ...

A team of archaeologists excavating a palace in the ancient city of Avaris, in Egypt, has made a gruesome discovery. The archaeologists have unearthed the skeletons of 16 human hands buried in four ...