CAIRO — Archaeologists in Egypt discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of Ramses II, one of the country's most famous and longest ruling ancient pharaohs. The colossus, a large ...

CAIRO — While the ancient Egyptian empire fell a millennia ago, discoveries from the time period are still being uncovered. A team of archeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a colossal statue ...

EGYPT is home to 1,100 slum areas, 350 of which are in and around Cairo. In addition to their lack of basic facilities such as electricity, running water, and sewage, many of those slums are ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists in Egypt discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of Ramses II, one of the country's most famous and longest ruling ancient pharaohs. The colossus, a large ...

Alexander Dziadosz has been a correspondent for Reuters in Egypt since October, 2009. In this piece he describes an encounter with Egyptian police and unidentified armed men, groups of whom control ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - When an uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Egyptians in the impoverished Cairo neighbourhood of Imbaba rejoiced. The revolt raised hopes that a democratic government ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Impoverished residents of red brick homes on an island in the Nile look nervously across the river at another Cairo slum, bulldozed this summer into a wasteland of rubble. Both areas ...

Host Liane Hansen reads letters from listeners reacting to our Climate Connections series on Egypt. We'll hear comments about the impact of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile Delta, Proctor and Gamble's ...

20 December 2014 Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab and Cairo Governor Galal Saeed have visited today the site of the national housing project in Al Salam City in North of Cairo that aims to ...

CAIRO (AP) - Archeologists in Egypt discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of pharaoh Ramses II, one of the country's most famous ancient rulers. The colossus, whose head was pulled ...