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Egyptian officials say six people have died and nine others were injured after a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada

Thirty-nine people were rescued when the vessel sank off the coast of the city of Hurghada early on Thursday

A heated debate has erupted among Egyptologists after researchers claimed to have found an “underground city” beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Is the discovery, based on radar images, groundbreaking or exaggerated?

It comes as speculation has mounted that the TV star is planning to step down as host of the ITV quiz show after 16 years

Scientists recently announced that they’d discovered a massive underground city underneath the pyramids in Egypt. They claim it’s ten times larger than the pyramids themselves. The post 90 Artefacts From The Ancient Past That You Might Not Have Heard of Before first appeared on Bored Panda.

At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid tombs.

What can Indian and Pakistani press archives, government records and memoirs tell us about the Middle East of the 1920s and ’30s, when Britain’s empire was in its twilight years? What did the dissolution of the Ottoman empire, the movement for Egyptian independence, or the crisis in British Mandate Palestine…

Officials say Egypt has introduced a new proposal to try and get the Israel-Hamas ceasefire back on track

A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ever unearthed it.

The pioneering food writer and historian talks of her fear of running out of words – even as she is writing her 22nd book

Laila Soueif says she intends to resume protest next week unless progress made on release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah