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© Provided by Xinhua The museum, inaugurated in 1940, has gone through renovation and expansion for the past three years. Now it reopens to the public

© Provided by Xinhua The museum, inaugurated in 1940, has gone through renovation and expansion for the past three years. Now it reopens to the public

The Egyptian government is implementing a project to repurpose one of the oldest and most famous buildings in downtown Cairo into a mixed-use development building to achieve profits and boost tourism.

Dozens of brightly colored floating houses have dotted the banks of the Nile for decades, rare oases of verdant seclusion amidst the bustle of the Egyptian

Dozens of vibrantly coloured floating homes have for decades dotted the banks of the River Nile, rare havens of leafy seclusion in the Egyptian capital's hustle and bustle -- but maybe not for much longer.

Egypt restored an old train dating back to the era of King Farouk after it was worn out due to being stored in a maintenance workshop.

The Egyptian government gave Nile houseboat owners orders to evacuate, citing their failure to pay license fees among several other reasons.

John Wreford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(CAIRO, Egypt) -- Ekhlas Helmy, 88, has spent decades waking up every morning to the scenery of the Nile

Prince Christian of Denmark was removed from his boarding school after it was hit by a sex abuse scandal, but the question remains: where will the future king continue his studies?

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Republic of Egypt are neighbors connected, rather than separated, by the Red Sea. It was this geographical proximity and close brotherhood that created the conditions for the first diplomatic contact between the two nations, a historic visit to the ancient land of Egypt by the leader of the newly unified Kingdom.