The Spanish archeological mission working on the excavation project of the "Temple of Millions of Years" of Pharaoh Thutmose III, uncovered a tomb at the external part of the southern wall to the temple, the Antiquities Ministry said Sunday in a statement.

Antiquities Minister Khaled Anany announced that the Egyptian Museum would be open to public at night twice a week to promote tourism.

The 38th edition of Cairo International Film Festival is scheduled to open on Tuesday, 15 November, and will run until 24 November.

During the ninth archaeological field season, which started in September, the joint Spanish-Egyptian mission at the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmose III, at Al-Deir Al-Bahari on Luxor's west bank, stumbled upon the tomb of the servant of the king’s house, Amenrenef.

The Ministry of Culture announced on Saturday evening the death of Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, one of Egypt's most renowned television and film actors in the past 40 years, after a long struggle with illness.

Scientists in Britain have developed a type of HIV test using a USB stick that can give a fast and highly accurate reading of how much virus is in a patient's blood.

First class passengers on a recent Aeromexico flight were confronted by a slithery stowaway, in a jaw-dropping scene reminiscent of the tongue-in-cheek action film "Snakes in a Plane."

The official opening of the Abu Dhabi branch of France's Louvre museum has been postponed to 2017 due to pending construction work, the latest setback for the long-delayed project, three sources said on Thursday.

During excavation work at Aswan's Qubbet El-Hawa necropolis, a British mission from Birmingham University and the Egypt Exploration Society uncovered a causeway leading to the tomb of Sarenput I, the first Middle Kingdom nomarch (provincial governor) of Aswan's Elephantine Island.

In a recent press release, the management of the ongoing 9th Panorama of the European Film announced that no screenings will take place on 11 November.

A dome-less mosque designed by a Bangladeshi woman architect and a Beirut institute by the late Zaha Hadid were among six projects awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Sunday.

The Egyptian film Clash (Eshtebak) by filmmaker Mohamed Diab won four awards at the 27th edition of the Carthage Film Festival, which ran this year between 28 October and 5 November in Tunisia.

Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany re-opened Kom Aushim Museum in the Fayoum governorate, South of Cairo, after it had undergone renovation.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo will showcase a set of artifacts from the collection of Tutankhamen Friday on the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the discovery of Egypt’s most famous Pharaoh, the antiquities ministry announced in a statement.

Alcohol consumption caused more than 700,000 new cancer cases and around 366,000 cancer deaths in 2012, mainly in rich countries, according to data reported Wednesday to the World Cancer Congress in Paris.

The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has announced that it will present Mohamed Diab's Clash (Eshtebak) to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for Golden Globe Awards consideration.

The opening of the 9th Panorama of the European Film was held on Tuesday 1 November at Karim Cinema, in Downtown Cairo.

Google marked the 95th birthday of Wadih El Safi, Lebanon’s most prominent cultural icon, with a doodle featuring the musician sitting with his oud at the backdrop of a typical Lebanese landscape.

The Egyptian Tourism Ministry has launched a marketing campaign in Rome aimed at boosting the number of Italian visitors to Egypt, which have dropped off significantly since the murder in Cairo of PhD student Giulio Regeni earlier this year.

As Indians wake Monday to smoke-filled skies from a weekend of festival fireworks, New Delhi's worst season for air pollution begins — with dire consequences.

The chairman of Egypt's National Committee for Antiquities Repatriation (NCAR) assigned former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass to take restricted action against Toledo Museum of Art which put on sale 68 artefacts from its collection.