New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Learn more about some recent discoveries: In Egypt, a massive stone block weighing about 40,000 pounds was ...

A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius ...

The letter echoed recent statements by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on the proposal, in which he said Egypt cannot participate in displacing the Palestinian people, describing the ...

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Read the Open Letter below. We, a group of leaders from human rights organizations, writers, and public media figures, appeal to you to grant clemency to Egyptian-British writer Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who ...

In a joint letter led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 50 prominent human rights leaders, Nobel Prize laureates, writers, and public figures have called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah ...