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Egyptian customs seize smuggled artefacts from Peru, Ecuador

Egyptian antiquities ministry will hand over the collection of statues and carved wooden heads to the respective embassies

Coin smugglers foiled at Cairo Airport

Graeco-Roman and Ottoman coins confiscated from passengers at Cairo International Airport on Wednesday

Egypt challenges a UK auctioneer over 200 'stolen' antiquities

Egypt informs International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) of allegedly stolen artefacts on sale at London's Bonhams auction house

Giza Plateau cleaned of garbage and dung

After two years of neglect, the world famous Giza Plateau is spruced up and cleared of garbage

Egyptian police foil coin-smuggling bid at Cairo airport

Authorities at Cairo International Airport thwart attempt to smuggle 145 ancient Egyptian coins – dating from Graeco-Roman, Ottoman eras – out of country

Egypt's Ibn Tulun Mosque in need of rescue

Cairp's historic Mosque of Ibn Tulun has lost much of its splendour recently, with wastewater and garbage lining its walls; Egypt's cash-strapped antiquities ministry fails to intervene

Encroachment continues on Egypt's archaeological sites, Al-Bordan

Egypt antiquities police and archeologists stop illegal construction at Al-Bordan archaeological site on Alexandria-Marsa Matrouh highway, yet damages completely destruct site

Hyksos buildings are the latest ancient discovery in Tel Habuwa

Important new discoveries at the Tel Habuwa dig east of the Suez Canal shed light on the campaign by Ahmose I (c.1550–1525 BC) against the Hyksos invaders

Saving Cairo: Engineers, archaeologists protest 'ugly' Old Cairo buildings

Under the banner 'Save Cairo, the city of 1000 minarets,' engineers, archaeologists and activists stage a protest at the Cairo governorate against new concrete buildings springing up in Historic Cairo

Egypt requests French auction house stop sale of Quran manuscript

Police and Royal Automobile Museums in Cairo's Citadel re-open

Unauthorised renovations at Sayyeda Zeinab Mosque halted

Cairo landmark Villa Casdagli to be restored to former glory

Ancient Egyptian noble tombs of 'virgin site' looted

A nobles' tomb site, not yet fully excavated, has been looted in Aswan

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Antiquities ministry tightens security at archaeological sites and museums

A plan to restore security in museums and archaeological sites across Egypt is finally going ahead

Egypt's Repatriation of Antiquities head resigns

Director-general of Repatriation of Antiquities Department resigns, citing lack of cooperation from other departments at Ministry of State for Antiquities

Egypt blasts US warning over incidents at pyramids

Egypt's Antiquities' Ministry has criticized a U.S. Embassy message to American citizens in the country, urging them to be extra cautious because of recent incidents near the pyramids in Giza.

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Police and Royal Automobile Museums in Cairo's Citadel re-open

Police and Carriage museums at Egypt's historic Salaheddin Citadel are open to visitors after almost a year of restorations

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