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3,500-year-old residential complex discovered in Egypt with connections dating back to the bible era

Archaeologists have recently discovered an ancient settlement at Tell el-Koua, situated within the Wadi Tumilat region of Ismailia. This discovery was announced in late June 2026 by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities(Egypt). It revealed a well-preserved site dating back to Egypt's Second Intermediate Period. For decades, historians and researchers…

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Egypt's lost city of Imet rediscovered: Multi-storey tower houses and cobra goddess shrines emerge from the Nile Delta

Egypt's lost city of Imet rediscArchaeologists from the University of Manchester and the University of Sadat City in Cairo have uncovered the remains of the ancient Egyptian city of Imet in the eastern Nile Delta a densely built urban centre dating to around the 4th century BCE whose streets, multi-storey…

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Giant Ramesses II statue fragment found in Nile Delta, revealing new clues about ancient Egypt

Archaeologists have unearthed a significant, colossal statue fragment in Egypt’s Nile Delta, believed to portray the legendary Pharaoh Ramesses II. Discovered by a mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, they found this statue at Tel al-Faraoun, located in the Sharqiya Governorate. As noted by Ahram Online, the remaining portion…

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1,500-year-old monastery found beneath Egypt’s Nile Delta reveals incredible history of early Christian life

Egypt has once again drawn attention from the archaeological world after researchers uncovered a large monastic complex believed to be around 1,500 years old. The site sits in the Nile Delta, a region already known for layers of ancient settlement and religious history. Officials from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and…

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Buried for 2,500 years: giant lost structure discovered beneath Egypt’s Nile Delta

Archaeologists have uncovered a huge mud-brick building, 2,500 years old, that has been buried underneath the silty deposits and waterlogged sediments of the Nile Delta, Egypt, for thousands of years, using non-invasive geophysical methods such as magnetometry and electrical resistivity tomographic techniques. The structure was located as part of a…

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'Thriving and densely-built': Archaeologists unearth 'tower' houses and ceremonial building in ancient Egyptian city of Imet

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated to the goddess Wadjet, a granary and several stunning artifacts.

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Trains collide in Egypt's Nile Delta leaving 2 dead, 29 injured

Two passenger trains have collided in Egypt’s Nile Delta, killing at least two people

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Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover Treasures From Last Dynasty

Exciting discovery of 63 tombs in Egypt's Nile Delta area reveals valuable artifacts from Late and Ptolemaic periods, shedding light on ancient history.

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Archaeologists discover trove of ancient artifacts from Egypt’s last dynasty

The artifacts include gold pieces and jewelry dating back to Egypt‘s Late and Ptolemaic periods

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Egyptian family awaits word on son as village mourns dozens feared drowned trying to reach Europe

Dozens of migrants who packed a fishing vessel that sank off Greece last week came from impoverished farming communities in Egypt’s Nile Delta

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Nile-Side Egypt Town Heralds Spring with Pungent Delicacy

The overwhelming smell may be misleading, but the Egyptian town of Nabaruh, its streets lined with shops selling salty, fermented fish called feseekh, is far from the seaside. Landlocked in the Nile Delta, "Nabaruh is the capital of feseekh," boasted 44-year-old Sherif al-Yamani, owner of one of the town's famed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Four Dead in Egypt Train Crash

Four people were killed and 23 injured when a passenger train slammed into the buffers at a station north of Cairo, the Egyptian health ministry said in an update Wednesday. The train went off its tracks as it traveled through the station in the city of Qalyub on its way…

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2 Dead as Train Derails in Northern Egypt

A passenger train derailed Tuesday north of Cairo, killing at least two people and injuring 16 others, Egyptian authorities said. The train went off its tracks as it traveled through a station in the city of Qalyub on its way to the city of Menouf in the Nile Delta, state…

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Egypt: New Bid at 12 Blocks in Mediterranean, Nile Delta on Oil and Gas Exploration

Egypt has set a new international tender for oil and gas exploration rights in the Nile Delta and Mediterranean sea, the petroleum minister announced on Tuesday. Tarek El-Molla said the tender was set for 12 blocks, split evenly between onshore and offshore. According to the Egyptian digital portal for exploration…

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Crisis on the Nile: Global warming and overuse threaten Africa’s longest river

Running from Uganda to Egypt, the Nile is essential to the survival of millions of people living in Africa. But a combination of climate change and human overuse is drying up the river, and worsening conditions for farmers who fear low harvests and loss of electricity.

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Climate change and rising seas threaten Egypt’s breadbasket

The Nile Delta is one of the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt: BP Awarded New Offshore Exploration Block in Western Mediterranean

BP has won gas exploring rights in Egypt's offshore King Mariout concession in the western Mediterranean, the British-based company said in a statement on Tuesday. This comes following its successful participation in 2021’s limited bid round organized by the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company. The concession area is located approximately…

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Egypt Erects Sand Barriers as Rising Sea Swallows the Nile Delta

The flooding had become inevitable. Every winter, amid heavy rains and storms, the Mediterranean Sea would rise and spill over into fisherman Aziz Lasheen's low-lying village in Egypt's northern governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh. As water poured into the village of Mastroua it would destroy homes, saturate farmland with saltwater and…

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Nomadic Bedouins set up camp by the housing blocks of Egypt's Nile Delta

With the roads and brick housing blocks of Egypt's densely populated Nile Delta in the distance, Elsayed Abuhamed and his family have pitched their tents in a field scattered with straw, tied up their livestock, and are cooking over an open fire.

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