The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities announced a new discovery of a funerary temple and ancient sarcophagi in Saqqara.

The temple is located south of Cairo and contains coffins that date back some 3,000 years.

Egypt’s former antiquities minister and noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass has revealed details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis south of Cairo

Ethiopia is building a controversial dam on the Blue Nile.

Live snakes slither on people’s backs and faces for pain relief at a spa in Egypt.

They were convicted of beating to death a street vendor held at a police station

Five American peacekeepers were among a group of seven killed in a helicopter accident in the Sinai Peninsula.

The comedian had been working for a popular satirical television program.

An Egyptian news outlet says one of its reporters, who reported on a young man’s death in police custody, has been detained on charges of reporting fake news

Lebanese security forces arrested 3 Egyptian men wanted in their home country.

Egyptian authorities have released the editor of an independent news website after he spent the maximum time allowed under the law in pre-trial detention

Egypt’s parliament has authorized the deployment of troops outside the country after the president threatened military action against Turkish-backed forces in Libya

Egyptian security agencies have tried to stifle criticism about the handling of the coronavirus health crisis by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's government

Egypt's historic Baron Empain Palace, which has been standing for more than 100 years, has opened its doors to visitors after three years of restoration work.

Egypt says its police forces have killed 18 militants in a raid in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula

Egyptian officials say at least 17 medics in the country’s main cancer hospital have been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, raising fears the pandemic could prey on health facilities in the Arab world’s most populous country

Human Rights Watch made the claims

Officials say thunderstorms packing heavy rains and lightning have caused widespread flooding across Egypt, killing at least five people and injuring five others

Thunderstorms and flooding around Egypt entered a second day, interrupting daily life in much of the country, including the capital Cairo,

An Egyptian court has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer and former lawmaker to one year in prison for his conviction on charges that rights advocates have decried as baseless and politically motivated

An Egyptian court has sentenced to death 37 defendants, including one of the country’s most high-profile militant leaders, following their conviction of terrorism-related charges

Egypt has held a full-honors military funeral for former autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted from power in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising

Egypt's restrictions on what it deems inappropriate forms of art have reached a new height with a ban on a popular genre of street music.

Mubarak was ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.

Egypt's former strongman Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by a popular revolt in 2011, has died at the age of 91, the country's state TV said on Tuesday.

A dual U.S.-Egyptian national who won a court order to be released from a Cairo prison will remain in jail after a prosecution appeal was accepted on Thursday.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the release of a dual U.S.-Egyptian national who was arrested upon her arrival at the Cairo airport in July 2019.

Egypt’s chief prosecutor is denying allegations that the police tortured a human rights activist and vocal critic of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi

The family of an American citizen who died in an Egyptian prison said they are disappointed that they haven't heard from President Donald Trump or other senior officials.

Egypt's official statistics agency says the country's fast-growing population has hit 100 million

Egyptian police have arrested an activist and researcher who has been a vocal critic of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government

Egypt has freed a pro-democracy activist who spent over four years in prison and rose to local prominence as one of the faces of the 2011 uprising

At least six masked militants planted explosives under the pipeline.

A 12-year-old girl has died in southern Egypt after her parents brought her this week to a doctor who preformed female genital mutilation, a criminal practice that remains widespread in the region

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed outrage to Egypt’s president at the death of an American citizen who insisted he had been wrongfully held in an Egyptian prison

Congress urges President Donald Trump to sanction Egypt for U.S. citizen Mustafa Kassem's death after he pleaded for help.

Egypt says it will investigate the death in custody of a U.S. citizen who had gone on hunger strike as part of a six-year battle against what he insisted was wrongful imprisonment

Mustafa Kassem who had been in jail for more than six years, died amid a hunger strike Monday.

A senior security official says police have arrested seven young men for allegedly taking part in a mob sexual assault of a young woman during New Year's Eve celebrations

The attack has reignited controversy over street violence against women.

Hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants call Cairo their temporary home

An Egyptian human rights activist missing since earlier this month called his wife to tell her he was about to be taken to a Cairo prosecutor's office for questioning

"Armed and terrorist militias" in Tripoli hold Libya "hostage," el-Sissi says.

The discovery also included the "biggest scarab in the world" as well as mummies of at least two cubs at the Saqqara necropolis.

Egyptian police raided the Cairo office of independent news website Mada Masr on Sunday and arrested three journalists, who have since been released.

Egypt unveiled a "one of a kind" discovery of a cache containing hundreds of statues and mummified animals on Saturday.

Egypt says archeologists unearthed mummy of unusually large animal, most likely a lion or lioness

Egypt unveils 3,000-year-old wooden coffins in Luxor. They date back to the 22nd Dynasty in the 10th century BC.