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Excavations in an ancient pet cemetery in Egypt have now uncovered handwritten letters by Roman centurions over 1,900 years ago. The letters were found amongst the carefully constructed graves of ...

New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Learn more about some recent discoveries: In Egypt, a massive stone block weighing about 40,000 pounds was ...

Strictly speaking, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized not the Suez Canal but the Suez Canal Company in 1956, the entity that operated the waterway and whose largest shareholder was the ...

Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received the credential letters of 23 new ambassadors to the Arab Republic of Egypt. Ambassador of the Dominican Republic H.E. Mrs. Ysset Caridad Román Maldonado ...