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There’s an unobstructed view of the pyramids from the museum.

Seven things you must see at the world’s largest archaeological museum

After years of delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum is officially opening next month. Here are seven highlights among its many wonders.

  • Andrew Bain

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Feluccas moored at the ancient ruins of Swenet on Elephantine Island in Aswan.

One of the world’s best travel experiences is back in fashion

A Nile River cruise is one of the world’s best travel experiences, not just for its incredible temples and tombs, but for the marvellous riverine and desert scenery.

  • Brian Johnston
The Temple of Luxor on the Nile.

Port guide: Luxor, Egypt

The Nile River is the most astonishing river cruise destination in the world, and Luxor has some of its biggest and best sights.

  • Brian Johnston
Peter Greste (left) and actor Richard Roxburgh, who portrays him in the movie The Correspondent.

They made a movie about my prison nightmare. I watched it through my fingers

As Richard Roxburgh stars as me in a feature film, I confront a disturbing reality: more journalists are behind bars today than when I was incarcerated in Egypt more than a decade ago.

  • Peter Greste
Sofitel Cairo… new luxury in ancient city.

The world’s biggest Sofitel hotel opens on the Nile

Egypt is experiencing a tourism surge, with almost 16 million tourists visiting last year.

  • Julietta Jameson
The king once buried in this tomb was thought to have ruled parts of Egypt some 3600 years ago.

‘Potential to rewrite history’: Archaeologists find tomb from lost dynasty of kings

The huge tomb, buried seven metres underground, dates from 3600 years ago.

  • Alan Yuhas
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A police vehicle in front of the hospital in Hurghada, where survivors received medical care after a tourist submarine sank at the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination.

Tourist submarine sinks off Egypt’s coast, killing six

Dozens of foreign tourists were also rescued when the vessel sank off the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

  • Sam Magdy, Mohamed Ezz and Nayera Abdallah
Palestinians walk in the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Egyptian answer to Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ doesn’t involve emptying it

Egypt’s three-phase reconstruction proposal comes after international uproar over Donald Trump’s call for the removal of Gaza’s Palestinian population.

  • Samy Magdy

‘Horrific’: Roxburgh on reliving Peter Greste’s Egyptian jail hell for the big screen

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh would portray his ordeal in a film.

  • David Leser
Displaced Palestinians returning to a destroyed Rafah in the Gaza Strip, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect.

Here’s why Trump’s ‘clean out Gaza’ idea is rejected

The US president said resettling most of the strip’s population of 2.3 million in Jordan or Egypt could be “temporary or long term”. He’s already heard a firm “no”.

  • Joseph Krauss

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