About 3,500 years ago, did the Egyptian woman named Webennesre feel comforted at all being accompanied in death by a papyrus now on display at the Getty Villa exhibition “The Egyptian Book of the Dead ...

Ancient Egypt represents one of the cradles of civilisation, and covers a period of more than 3,000 years. If those facts leave you feeling a little guilty that you know so little about such an ...

In February, after 30 years of silence and fear, the Egyptian people demonstrated to the world that they had a voice. In the wake of Hosni Mubarak's resignation, the country will continue to transform ...

Looking at Egypt, historian Khaled Fahmy affords a harrowing insight into the status of that most indispensable of commodities: the book In recent weeks I encountered two incidents that made me feel ...

The establishment of such great edifice passed through several stages, forms, and different names until it became the “General Egyptian Book Organization”, which is entrusted with publishing the ...

The 51st edition of the Cairo International Book Fair, which kicked off a few days ago, represents one of the Egyptian capital’s most important historical and cultural events — the oldest and largest ...

Al-Yahood Al-Misryoon wa Al-Haraka Al-Suhyuniyya (“Egyptian Jews and the Zionist Movement”), by Awatef Abdel-Rahman, Cair: Dar Al-Hilal – Al-Hilal book series, 2017. pp. 256. Abdel-Rahman’s book is ...

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” ...

The discovery of a papyrus related to the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead sparked wild online reactions. Archeologists recently uncovered a 3,500-year-old ancient Egyptian cemetery located in ...