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Archaeologists believe they have unearthed only a small fraction of Egypt's ancient ruins, but they're making new discoveries with help from high-tech allies -- satellites that peer into the past from the distance of space.
Until recently, desert guides often ran into smugglers in the area but each side left the other alone. Not any more
Ain Shams University Biologist Hebat Abdel Hadi is taking "waste not, want not" to a whole other level.
Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid
As protesters in Khartoum call for tougher punishment of Gillian Gibbons for her "blasphemous" classroom teddy bear, the Sudanese government is hamstrung
It was a time when you felt you were covering a profound historic shift.
Egypt's public prosecutor has charged 14 employees of the state's railway authority with negligence which led to the deaths of 56 people in a rail crash last month.
Two passenger trains collided and burst into flames north of Cairo Monday morning, killing at least 57 people and injuring 128 others, according to the Egyptian health minister.
Archeologists say they have evidence that a bond between cats and humans was forged thousands of years before previously thought.
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