According to Associated Press writer Paul Schemm in Cairo (with a contribution from AP writer Angela Doland in Paris) in the article “Egypt cuts ties with France’s Louvre museum” on Yahoo! News, Egypt’s antiquities department severed ties with the Louvre France because the Louvre “has refused to return what are described as stolen artifacts, one of the country’s most aggressive attempts yet to reclaim relics from some of the world’s leading Egyptology collections.”

Archeologists from Egypt will carry out new explorations in October to search for the tombs of Cleopatra and her beloved Mark Antony, the head of Egypt's Higher Council of Antiquities said on Monday.

The President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak came to Washington for a summit with his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, to be held on Tuesday at the White House. The goal of the visit is to analyze the Middle East peace process.

If you like to just sit back and drift into an ancient civilization then take one of the many cruises on the Nile when arranging your next Egypt vacation packages.

Four people were killed, including two foreigners (one id3entified as a French woman, the other unknown), in a blast near a popular tourist area in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday.

Israeli public news agency REKA reports that Egypt presents ceasefire draft to Turkey for consideration by Hamas.

A fire on Saturday destroyed the main hall of the Egyptian National Theatre in Cairo. Six people have been injured including three firefighters. No one was in the theatre at the time as it was closed for the weekend.

Abductors of 11 foreigners in the southern Egyptian desert, near the border with Sudan, have demanded a ransom for the tourists' release, the Egyptian tourism minister said Monday.

I have written in the past how the geography of Egypt was so different to that of Dubai and United Arab Emirates. Green areas along the Nile, alluvial soil, agriculture, etc. But that was not all that was different.

A University of Chicago expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos that provide fresh clues about the emergence of urban life.

IRI Separation Technologies (TSX.V:IRI) is the manufacturer of a remarkable new dietary supplement that enhances the human body’s natural immune system through direct supplementation of actual antibodies . The product will be available in the United States and Canada under the brand name “Muno Boost” and will be available as an over-the-counter dietary supplement in pharmacies and through direct marketing.

A number of elite tombs from Ancient Egypt are now accessible to all thanks to the launch of the Mastabase. The Mastabase is a CD-ROM containing descriptions and hieroglyphic inscriptions of scenes of daily life from 337 Mastaba tombs. This resource will make research into these elite tombs a lot easier. On 13 May 2008, Dutch Egyptologist René van Walsem will officially present the MastaBase in Leiden.