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The Egyptian has struggled for the Reds this season and will be away with The Pharaohs during the festive period for the Africa Cup of Nations

Egyptian king will miss crunch pre-tournament friendly

The Egypt World Cup 2026 squad preparation continues at this month's Arab Cup

A rare example of a sun hat from late Roman Egypt that was stitched together from fabrics in five colors.

The new flights will boost opportunities for UK tourists to book holidays in Egypt

The competition for global influence and control is shifting. One of the places where this dynamic is playing out is the Red Sea region, which encompasses Egypt, Eritrea, Djibouti, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Here, international rivalries, regional ambitions and local politics collide. Federico Donelli, who has studied these political…

The Muslim Brotherhood one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and Japan’s Edo Samurais. The show tells these stories through a combination of recreated dramatic scenes, explanation from experts and discussions of objects from the British Museum. Here, four experts in…

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

In Darfur, at least twice as many people have been killed than in Gaza since 2023. As the crisis looks likely to worsen, one nation has questions to answer over its links to the atrocities. By Robert Fox

Following a $50m revamp of the Pyramids and the opening of the GEM Museum, now is the ideal time to take to the Nile, as Bella Falk discovers on a 12-day cruise from Cairo to Aswan