Sofitel Cairo… new luxury in ancient city.

The world’s biggest Sofitel hotel opens on the Nile

Egypt is experiencing a tourism surge,with almost 16 million tourists visiting last year.

  • Julietta Jameson

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The king once buried in this tomb was thought to have ruled parts of Egypt some 3600 years ago.

‘Potential to rewrite history’:Archaeologists find tomb from lost dynasty of kings

The huge tomb,buried seven metres underground,dates from 3600 years ago.

  • Alan Yuhas
A police vehicle in front of the hospital in Hurghada,where survivors received medical care after a tourist submarine sank at the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination.

Tourist submarine sinks off Egypt’s coast,killing six

Dozens of foreign tourists were also rescued when the vessel sank off the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

  • Sam Magdy,Mohamed Ezz andNayera Abdallah
Palestinians walk in the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya,Gaza Strip,Tuesday,Feb. 11,2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Egyptian answer to Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ doesn’t involve emptying it

Egypt’s three-phase reconstruction proposal comes after international uproar over Donald Trump’s call for the removal of Gaza’s Palestinian population.

  • Samy Magdy

‘Horrific’:Roxburgh on reliving Peter Greste’s Egyptian jail hell for the big screen

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell,he could little imagine that one day,Richard Roxburgh would portray his ordeal in a film.

  • David Leser
Displaced Palestinians returning to a destroyed Rafah in the Gaza Strip,a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect.

Here’s why Trump’s ‘clean out Gaza’ idea is rejected

The US president said resettling most of the strip’s population of 2.3 million in Jordan or Egypt could be “temporary or long term”. He’s already heard a firm “no”.

  • Joseph Krauss
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One as he travelled from Las Vegas to Miami.

‘You know,it’s over’:Trump floats plan to ‘just clean out’ Gaza

Donald Trump told reporters he wants Jordan,Egypt and other Arab nations to take in “probably a million and a half” Palestinians from the war-torn strip.

  • Will Weissert andZeke Miller
Cruising the Nile with Viking is a bucket-list moment.

Twelve things that will surprise you about a Nile cruise

Reckon the Middle East is a no-go zone for tourists right now? Think again. The sights along Egypt’s lifeblood will amaze even the most seasoned traveller.

  • Steve McKenna
Le Meridien Pyramids’ rooms have views,as the hotel name suggests,of the Pyramids of Giza.

I spent just 24 hours in a country. Does that mean I’ve ‘been’ there?

The first thing I’m going to do on this beautiful morning,my first in a new country? Check out. And then head to the airport.

  • Ben Groundwater
An Egyptian mug from the second century B.C. at the Tampa Museum of Art that was found to have traces of hallucinogenic plants.

Psychedelic traces found on mug from ancient Egypt

Egyptians may have used hallucinogenic substances as part of a fertility rite,researchers say.

  • Alexander Nazaryan