A tourist bus collided with a truck on a highway in southern Egypt and burst into flames on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people including four French and a Belgian, the Associated Press reported.
Along with the tourists, five Egyptians were killed (...)
The mummified body of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh has been studied for the first time in millennia after being digitally "unwrapped", BBC reported.
The mummy of Amenhotep I, who ruled from 1525 to 1504 BC, was found at a site in Deir el-Bahari 140 (...)
Egypt reopened on Thursday night the Avenue of Sphinxes in Upper Egypt's Luxor Province after years of renovation works, with hopes to internationally promote the country's ancient civilization and its tourism sector.
The inauguration ceremony was (...)
JEDDAH — In an air festivity and heralding a new era of cruise tourism, the mammoth cruise ship MSC Bellissima anchored in Jeddah Islamic Port. All the preparations and arrangements were well in place at the port to receive the largest cruise vessel (...)
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the newest national airline of the United Arab Emirates, on Monday announced three new routes connecting Abu Dhabi to Belgrade, Sohag and Luxor.
The new destinations offer something for everyone — from beautiful landmarks and (...)
A group of archaeologists has found the largest ancient city ever discovered in Egypt, dating back 3,000 years.
The city, named "The Rise of Aten," was discovered under the sand on the western bank of Luxor, lead archeologist Zahi Hawass said in a (...)
ACWA Power, a leading Saudi developer, investor and operator of power generation and desalinated water plants in 13 markets, has finalised the project agreements for the 200MW Kom Ombo PV plant in Egypt.
The signing of the 25-year Power Purchase (...)
Over the past three weeks, the crisis has severely deepened with over half the worldwide population either confined and/or under lock-down. This has resulted in a virtual standstill of travel, dining and entertainment, which is vastly affecting our (...)
CAIRO ‐ Egypt reported on Monday 40 new coronavirus cases raising the total number of cases to 166, in addition to two new deaths, raising the death toll to four people, according to the ministry of health.
Thirty-five of the new cases were Egyptian (...)
Ahmed Abd-Rabo used to get all the water he needed to feed his crops in northern Egypt. Then the canal linking his seven acres to the River Nile started drying up and he had to abandon half the plot.
His smallholding is one of the victims of a (...)
FOLLOWING an almost three-year ban and intensive rounds of negotiations, the Russian national carrier Aeroflot resumed flights to Cairo in April 2018. The ban, which started in October 2015 following the explosion of a bomb on a Russian plane over (...)
Egypt on Sunday completed a project to restore the catacombs of Kom El-Shuqafa in western Alexandria, which have been prone to groundwater leaks since they were discovered in the first decade of the 20th century.
The restoration, which began in late (...)
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) - UN Regional Conference on Combating Terrorism Kicked off today in Luxor, Egypt, titled " The role of parliamentarians in addressing the threat of foreign terrorist fighters and associated challenges organized (...)
FAI-World Air Sports Federation honored, at its 112th General Assembly's Session held in the Egyptian Luxor governorate, Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, President of Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) and the founder (...)
The World Air Sports Federation (FAI) will honor Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, President of Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH), as the first Arab astronaut, at the Federation's 112th General Conference in Luxor, (...)
The Arab Federation for Sports Culture selected Fawaz Al-Sharif, Saudi prominent journalist, as the first Vice President during the meeting of the Executive Committee held recently in the province of Luxor of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Al-Sharif's (...)
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Noha Youssef
ASWAN/LUXOR - In 1922, an enthusiastic Egyptologist named (...)
Archeologists in Egypt have discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of pharaoh Ramses II, one of the country's most famous ancient rulers.
The colossus, whose head was pulled from mud and groundwater by a bulldozer on Thursday, is (...)
QATAR Airways has today announced a new daily service to the popular city of Luxor, Egypt — effective Oct. 30. The now daily service is an increase on Qatar Airways' current five-times weekly service to the Egyptian city, and will deliver an (...)
تستعرض « الوئام» في التقرير التالي أغلى عشرة هواتف في العالم بأسعارها، والتي تأتي بمواصفات تقنية لا تختلف عن باقي الأجهزة، ولكن تتميز بأنها مزودة بمجموعة نادرة من الأحجار الكريمة، والمعادن النفيسة، وقد تم تصميمها خصيصا لمشاهير وأثرياء العالم.
ويأتي (...)
A hot air balloon carrying 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas, and it appeared no one survived, authorities said.
Authorities would not confirm the exact number of deaths in Saturday's crash, but Lynn Lunsford with the Federal (...)
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Emily Jardine
SUMMER in the Middle East can be intense. While the heat (...)
"For a thousand years," Abdullah Sheikh's family has been working the land the same way — flooding fields in Egypt's Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand.
But now a small, relatively cheap plow has changed all that, allowing him to nearly double (...)
They take off at first light, reinforced wicker baskets filled with people, heading into the skies over Luxor, Egypt.
Only from a balloon high in the sky, in the clear air of the early morning, can a visitor begin to grasp the beauty of antiquities (...)
Saudi Ambassador to Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Permanent Representative to the Arab League and Dean of the Arab Diplomatic Corps, Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Qattan said that air traffic of Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAUDIA) from and to Egypt has (...)
