The Metropolitan Museum in New York’s executive director, Daniel Weiss apologized in a statement to Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani, saying he would return a valuable artifact in the museum’s possession which had been smuggled from Egypt in 2011. The museum announced Friday that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office found evidence showing that the museum was given a false date of ownership on a gold-plated coffin dating back to the 1st century BC, inscribed for Nedjemankh. According to the New York Times, Nedjemankh was a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed god Heryshef of Heracleopolis.

First it was the furor over a proposed new “popular” film category, then it was the fiasco over planned host Kevin Hart, and last month the organizers of the Oscars were accused of intimidating celebrities not to present at rival award shows. Last week, another storm erupted when, as part of a pledge to shorten next Sunday s Oscars ceremony, plans to present awards for cinematography, film editing, live-action shorts and makeup/hairstyling during commercial breaks were slammed as insulting by actors, directors and cinematographers. Five days later, the plan was scrapped.

In her most recent Cairo exhibition, which closed on 4 February, Cairo-based Syrian artist Souad Mardam Bey continued to present a different vision and philosophy through her paintings at Zamalek Art Gallery, a location that embraces most of her creative works in a city where she has built a name for herself on the artistic scene. Mardam Bey continues to display her signature style as shown in previous exhibitions such as Adam (2018), The Magic Thread (2016), and a 2013 display where she focused on the Arab Spring.

Excavations carried out by an Egyptian mission at the Tel Abu Seify archaeological site in Northern Sinai uncovered the remains of a limestone building that was once a workshop for the construction and repair of boats and vessels during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. The site is said to have been the location of the Roman fortress of Silla. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that the workshop includes two dry dockyards where ships were built or repaired. But regretfully, along the span of time as the workshop lost its function, after the Nile branch passing across the area dried up, some blocks of the workshop were removed to be used in the construction of other buildings.

Music s biggest stars will gather in Los Angeles on Sunday for the Grammy Awards, and this year observers are hoping the hip-hop and women artists leading the pack will get their due. The industry s annual gala draws eye rolls every year from critics who say the winners are too white and too male, but for the second consecutive year black hip-hop artists dominated the nominations across the board. Rapper Kendrick Lamar — who won a Pulitzer Prize for his album “DAMN.” but not a Grammy for Album of the Year — earned eight nominations, while Canadian rapper Drake snagged seven. Women artists scored nods in all of the top categories after being largely snubbed a year ago, with rapper Cardi B, pop diva Lady Gaga, pop futurist Janelle Monae and folk rocker Brandi Carlile among the frontrunners.

Adel Adham, who passed away 9 February 1996, can t be viewed as an actor who only succeeded in playing the villain in Egyptian cinema. The man was endowed with a special style of performing these kind of roles that distinguished him from those who made such roles their specialty to the extent that he became the founder of an acting technique emulated by others. Adel Adham, who was dubbed “The Prince,” was born in Alexandria on 8 March 1928 to a father who was a government employee and a mother of Turkish origin. Being fluent in a number of languages helped him in getting along with members of foreign communities, who were widespread in the coastal city, especially after he began to work in business since he was 17. While strolling on an Alexandrian beach, he was spotted by director Abdel-Fattah Hassan during the shooting of a film and offered an acting job. The handsome youth liked the idea and appeared in several movies taking small parts, starting in 1949 and including Gawaher (Mohamed Abdel-Gawad) and The Big House (Ahmed Kamel Morsi).

The only casing stone from the Great Khufu Pyramid of Giza is being displayed on February 8 in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. This display is the only one of its kind anywhere outside of Egypt. The huge white limestone is being showcased in the newly established “Ancient Egypt Gallery” at the National Museum of Scotland.

Egyptologists and other experts gathered in Italy this week to celebrate a successful campaign to save ancient Egyptian temples from being submerged by a dam project 50 years ago and heard of cultural sites facing similar threats now. The international campaign that saved the temples of Abu Simbel during construction of Aswan High Dam was remembered in Turin as an unprecedented engineering achievement and a turning point that made the preservation of cultural treasures a responsibility that cut across borders.

Like master artisans selecting the finest raw materials for their showpiece designs, New Caledonian crows identify the best plants for fashioning hunting hooks from among myriad shrubs in the forest undergrowth, researchers said Wednesday. The notoriously bright birds — one of the few animals apart from humans known to manufacture their own tools — use leaves and plant stems to create an array of utensils they then wield to forage for bugs in the ground or prise prey out of deadwood.

Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anany inaugurated a temporary exhibition showcasing artifacts unearthed by the French-Italian mission at Hall #44 at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir square on February 4, a statement by Ministry of Antiquities officially reported. The exhibition will run for two months and is organized by the Ministry of Antiquities in collaboration with both the French Institute of Oriental Archeology and the University of Milano.

There is mounting evidence of the impact of climate change on human habitat and health, on plant and animal life, on water resources and shorelines. These changes are felt unevenly within – and between – nations and communities. This is due to differences in access to resources, infrastructure, social structure, and government policy. Climate change is, and will continue to be, most severely felt by the poorest people in any population, particularly those living in poorly-resourced, isolated and extreme environments. But extreme weather events, famine and epidemics are not how people most commonly experience climate change. Rather, the unprecedented peaks in temperature across the world affect the conditions of everyday life in subtle ways. This is particularly true among people with fewest resources.

Governor of Aswan, Ahmed Ibrahim announced on Sunday that the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has selected Aswan for the 2019 UNESCO Learning City Award. Ibrahim clarified that the governorate would receive the prize during 2019 International Conference of Educational Cities in Colombia. The winners of the 2019 UNESCO Learning City Award are: Aswan (Egypt), Chengdu (China), Heraklion (Greece), Ibadan (Nigeria), Medellín (Colombia), Melitopol (Ukraine), Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), Santiago (Mexico), Seodaemun-gu (Republic of Korea) and Sonderborg (Denmark). General Manager of Education in Aswan Mervat al-Saman said that these cities have shown exemplary progress and commitment to promote education and lifelong learning at the local level. Saman added that Aswan also won the prize after developing a strategy that integrated a wide variety of projects, including gardening and water-conservation programmes in schools, as well as diverse entrepreneurial training opportunities for all areas of society. The UNESCO Learning City Award was established as part of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2015. It is an international biennium award and a recognition of exemplary progress made by cities in promoting inclusive education and lifelong learning in local communities.

Scientists have long known that some beaked whales beach themselves and die in agony after exposure to naval sonar, and now they know why: the giant sea mammals suffer decompression sickness, just like scuba divers. At first blush, the explanation laid out Wednesday by 21 experts in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B seems implausible.

As a part of the vital restoration project in Khedival Cairo, Riham Arram, General Manager for Cairo Heritage Preservation General Administration has collaborated with Heliopolis district to revitalize the facades of heritage buildings, al-Ahram reported, with plans to transform several into open museums. The Heliopolis district houses about 700 heritage buildings. Brigadier Ahmed Anwar, President of Heliopolis referred to the project s importance as it will add a special value to the district itself. He said that some that while some of these buildings have already been repaired, the real challenge comes from the inappropriate appearance of the surrounding buildings.

Rami Malek won best actor for his Freddie Mercury, Emily Blunt was the upset winner for her supporting role in the horror thriller "A Quiet Place and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel swept comedy series honors at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. Malek dedicated the award for his performance in ``Bohemian Rhapsody to Mercury, as he did at the Golden Globes. ``I get some power from him that s about stepping up and living your best life, being exactly who you want to be and accomplishing everything you so desire, said Malek.

By all accounts, Dasan and Illika should have died of poisoning. But they are back on their feet, poking their beaks through the bars of their cages, impatient to return to the skies over Colombia, which have been transformed into hostile territory for the so-called king of the Andes — the condor. Dasan, a five-year-old male, fell victim first. Locals found him in November — weak and strangely docile — in Cerrito, located about 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of the capital Bogota.

Luxor city on Thursday will celebrate the end of the Egyptian-American project seeking to restore and protect the tomb of King Tutankhamun, in the Valley of the Kings at the West Bank of Luxor. The project is the largest of its kind inside the tomb, which was discovered 96 years ago by British archaeologist Howard Carter. The restoration project has been working for the past ten years.

During excavation work carried out by an Egyptian mission in Kom El-Khelgan area in the Nile Delta, a collection of tombs and burials have been unearthed. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Ahram Online that the tombs date back to the Second Intermediate Period and include animals burials, a collection of broken burned clay pots, rounded and oval pots with holders, as well as seven amulets and scarabs carved in faience and decorated with well-known motifs of the era.

Rami Malek scored his first Best Actor Oscar nomination in a mind-blowing leading role for “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Oscar nominations were announced January 22 when all actors started to respond and express their feelings. Malek described the moment he heard about his nomination as an “emotional moment”, according to Good Morning America. He stated that the most unexpected words are the ones telling you about your Best Actor nomination. For Malek, this nomination is a distant dream that actors live wishing for, knowing it is a far away possibility.

Egyptian cinema lost Mary Mounib on 21 January 1969. Mounib wasn t an ordinary comedienne. She was the first woman to break men s monopoly on stardom in the comedy field. Definitely before her there were actresses who had the capability to play comedy roles. But none of them achieved the success Mary Mounib attained. Plays were written for her and she was cast as the leading lady the same as male comedians.

In Mission, Texas, the construction of part of a long-promised wall on the border with Mexico to stem the tide of undocumented migrants is already in progress. Among the many who will be affected? Butterflies. Mission, located in the lower Rio Grande Valley, is home to the National Butterfly Center, a private non-profit 100-acre (40-hectare) preserve dedicated to conservation of the insects in their natural habitat.