Ancient Egypt Archives

Egypt in the News on 12 June 2019.

Leading the conversation again this morning: Egypt’s attempts to prevent Christie’s from auctioning a 3,000 year-old bust of Tutankhamun (which…

The sole story featured in the foreign press yesterday is gaining traction this morning: The Guardian and The Independent have…

The eyes of the foreign press are firmly trained elsewhere this morning, with only two noteworthy pieces to speak of.…

Tour the Giza Plateau from 4,600 years ago: A virtual video produced by Harvard University’s Digital Giza Project lets you…

Egypt’s commitment to completing the Grand Egyptian Museum on time is front-page news in the country’s three main state-run newspapers…

The constitutional amendments are getting more digital ink in foreign news outlets: Receiving widespread coverage in the foreign press this…

Driving the conversation on Egypt on a day in which there is lots of coverage, but no single narrative: The…

Three sarcophagi opened live on the Discovery Channel: A team of Egyptologists opened three sealed sarcophagi live on the Discovery…

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