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Confirmed Grand Opening Details for the GEM
The Grand Egyptian Museum’s opening date is confirmed.
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MET&T Releases Updated Hotel Rankings for Egypt
Middle East Travel & Tourism, which took over the Best Hotels of Egypt list for EgyptTravelBlog in 2022, has released the latest Best Hotels of Egypt list for…
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Updates on Money and Currency in Egypt
UPDATE: As of March 2024, the government of Egypt made the decision to float the Egyptian Pound, meaning the Egypt’s currency was no longer set at a fixed…
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Egypt Unveils 3,400-Year Old ‘Avenue of the Sphinxes’
After its discovery in the late 1940s and after several rounds of excavations and restorations since then, the ancient Avenue of the Sphinxes finally reopened…
Giza
New archaeological finds in Egypt continue to astonish
Important discoveries out of Egypt have again been flooding the global news as archaeologists continue to explore beneath the sands of the Saqqara necropolis…
History
More Unsealed Mummies Discovered at Saqqara
If you’ve ever wandered around the rocky grounds of the Saqqara royal necropolis, the site of the Pharaoh Djoser’s famous Step Pyramid just south of the most…
The Pyramids & Sphinx
Step Pyramid Interior Reopens to the Public
The Step Pyramid of Djoser at Sakkara is one of the most unique pyramids in Egypt and the oldest pyramid still standing anywhere in the world. While most of…
Cairo
Mummies on the Move
There have been quite a few recent developments about mummies in Egypt lately, including the largest discovery of mummies in over a century near Luxor, which…
Downtown Cairo Sites
Did Ancient Egyptians Really Mummify Their Pets?
We all know that the ancient Egyptians mummified the dead bodies of their loved ones with elaborate rituals and scientific rigor, whether they were a revered…
Luxor
New Major Mummy Discovery Unveiled in Luxor
The largest new discovery of ancient Egyptian mummies in over a century has been revealed to the public by Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities at a ceremony in…