Discover the perfect 3-day Cairo itinerary covering the Pyramids of Giza, Grand Egyptian Museum, Saqqara, Coptic and Islamic ...

Al Fustat (Coptic Cairo/Old Cairo) is ranked #6 out of 22 things to do in Cairo. See pictures and our review of Al Fustat (Coptic Cairo/Old Cairo).

Serbian Prime Minister Duro Mascut expressed his pleasure on Wednesday at meeting the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed El ...

Located 435km south of Cairo, ... a sixty-year-old Coptic barber who tried to protect his family and his house and was slaughtered in front of everyone as a result.

PERHAPS the history of Islam is incomplete without a mention of Egypt. This is an ancient country that has pioneered world ...

On a table in Nermien Riad's office is a hard, round nut, about the size of a fist. It is the fruit of the doum palm, a tree native to North Africa. The tree takes years to grow and mature, and those ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

The best ways to get around Cairo are by metro train or rideshare. Egypt's capital is constantly choked by traffic. But below Cairo's congested streets, the metro system is clean, affordable and ...

The Coptic Orthodox church marks time by its martyrs. Its ecclesial calendar begins in AD 284, year 1 Anno Martyrii (Year of the Martyrs), when Emperor Diocletian ascended to the throne and put ...

Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they ...