Egypt Travel News

Even places one would not expect to celebrate this holiday are surprisingly eagerly waiting this special day.

Berlin/Cairo- Egypt has not made a formal request for Germany to return the bust of Queen Nefertiti, the director Berlin's Egyptian Museum said on Monday, defending the museum's right to the famous artefact.

The fastest-growing tour operator in Great Britain is undoubtedly a company called Low-Cost Travel, whose Web site is www.lowcostholidays.com. Last year, it sold vacations in the tropics to 1.2 million Brits, a number that was double the level of business it enjoyed the year before.

A Berlin museum stressed on Friday that Egypt had made no formal request for the bust of Queen Nefertiti to be returned, ahead of an upcoming trip to Cairo.

Egypt on Thursday lifted a nine-ton gate of the goddess Isis which carved out of red granite and discovered in the port area on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Flyglobespan, Scotland's largest holiday charter and budget airline, has gone bust leaving 5,000 travellers stranded, 800 staff out of a job and more than 100,000 Christmas holidaymakers facing misery.

Nevine El-Aref speaks with UNESCO's new director-general, visiting Egypt on the first leg of a comprehensive Arab-African tour Irina Bokova, the newly appointed UNESCO director-general, visited Egypt on 5 December to attend the first meeting of the permanent Forum of Arab-African Dialogue on Democracy and Human Rights after being invited by Boutros ...

The head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said he plans to ask the British Museum to hand the Rosetta Stone over to his country.

Egypt: 2 hours, 27 minutes ago Solidere International, in collaboration with Sodic, started with the implementation of two projects in Egypt.

Key factors behind the forecast growth in Egypt's retail sales are an extremely large and youthful population, the emergence of a more affluent middle class, a vibrant tourism industry, and the growing acceptance of modern retail concepts.

If you are heading for Egypt, and have a high temperature or other symptoms of flu, you could be placed in an isolation ward at your expense.

Egypt has been digging trenches and installing metal sheets underground along its border with Gaza in an apparent attempt to curb smuggling into the Palestinian territory through tunnels, Gaza border guards and area residents said Thursday.

Given the peace and quiet Tutankhamun enjoyed for three millennia, it has been a rough 87 years for him since he was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.

DRIVING TOWARDS ALEXANDRIA THIS MORNING. This is another day, and today we are visiting Alexandria.

It's not uncommon for writers to have a day job. Lawyers write. Soldiers and teachers write.

A CULLOMPTON farmer who is a long-term supporter of a horse and donkey charity has just been on a ten-day tour of Egypt to see the work of the charity first hand.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo cited recent press reporting when it released a message reminding visitors that the security situation in the Sinai north of the Cairo-Nekhl-Taba road remains fluid because of the continuing potential for violence in the region.

The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II on Tuesday received visiting Hellenic Navy chief of staff Vice-Adm. Georgios Karamalikis, who is on an official visit to Egypt this week.

If you have always wanted to see the Pyramids, ride a camel, sail a felucca, read hieroglyphs, shop the bazaars and cruise the Nile, then a trip to Egypt next June organized by local educators and traveler coordinators Jeff Gill and Debbie Howell might be just what you've been looking for.

Napoleon's invasion of Egypt produced a vast trove of scholarly material that's sampled in a current exhibit at the Fleming Museum.