Egypt's antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, said Friday he plans to step down to protest police inaction as the country's ancient treasures are being looted and vandalized.
Saying he hopes "tourists from around the world will soon return," Egypt's newly appointed minister of antiquities announced Thursday that tourist sites will reopen on Sunday.
At least two of 18 relics reported missing from the Egypt's main museum in Cairo have been recovered, the country's antiquities director said Monday.
At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister of antiquities said Sunday.
Looters caused "minimal" damage to relics in Cairo's Egyptian Museum. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.
Work to restore Egyptian artifacts damaged during anti-government protests began on Sunday, according to the nation's newly appointed minister of antiquities.
Despite the chaos, volunteers and workers unite to save Alexandria's famous library. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
Dr. Zahi Hawass reports that vandals have created some damage to Cairo's antiquities museum.
Egypt's major archaeological sites, monuments and museums were under the protection of the country's army on Monday, according to the nation's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Vandals ripped the heads off two mummies and tossed relics onto the ground in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, the country's antiquities chief said Sunday.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is returning to Egypt 19 small objects that were entombed for centuries with ancient Egypt's "boy king," officials announced Wednesday.
Protection from the Sahara's howling dust storms may have helped the Sphinx maintain its steady gaze over the millennia.
The upper portion of a limestone likeness of King Tut's grandfather has been unearthed in Luxor, Egyptian officials said.
The legendary Egyptian "boy king" Tutankhamun, commonly known as King Tut, died of conditions including malaria and complications from a leg fracture, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a forensic expert, talks about what the examination of King Tutankhamen's remains reveals.
Egypt is suspending ties with France's famous Louvre museum until the latter returns artifacts that it knew were stolen when it purchased them, the head of the country's antiquities council said Wednesday.
CNN's Ben Wedeman reports on a discovery in Egypt that has archaeologists very excited.
Archaeologists discover a 16-foot tall structure under the sand in Egypt is part of an unknown pyramid.
Egyptian archaeologists discovered the bottom portion of a previously undiscovered pryamid near Cairo, Egypt.
Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday a 4,000-year-old
"missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered
by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again
Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have
unearthed 3,000-year-old remains from an ancient fortified city, the
largest yet found in Egypt
For the first time, the mummy of King Tut is put on public display in Luxor, Egypt.
(LUXOR, Egypt) -- The face of King Tut was unshrouded in public for the first time on Sunday -- 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor's famed Valley of the Kings.
Egyptian archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said on Monday.
Mummy is lost female pharoah
She's 2,500 years old, stunningly beautiful and at the center of the latest smuggling scandal to have sullied the world of antiquities.
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