As crews dug through the soil along the Nile in Southern Egypt, skeletons slowly emerged from the dirt. The area had once been an ancient graveyard, but looting and housing projects had damaged the ...

The position of women in the New Kingdom was based on a unique combination of ancient tradition and modern sophistication. The opportunities available to most women were limited by centuries of ...

CAIRO (AP) – Waleed Hammad dressed conservatively for his secret mission into the world of sexual harassment and abuse on the streets of Cairo, donning a long tan skirt and sleeved shirt, and at times ...

Ancient Egyptian women wore ornate back tattoos to protect them during and after childbirth, a new study suggests. The hypothesis follows examination of mummified remains of two women with tattoo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient tumor was uncovered in an Egyptian burial site.A. Deblauwe A tumor with teeth was found in a 3,000-year-old ancient ...

PARIS — Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez has revealed that she competed at the Paris Olympics on Monday while seven months pregnant. “What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually ...

The cover of "Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation" beside author Leslie T. Chang. (Courtesy) “Made in Egypt" — those three words increasingly appear on our clothing tags. But ...

In Egypt women rappers like Dareen are battling to make their mark in a booming industry long-dominaed by men — Ahmed HASAN Egyptian rapper Dareen is a whirlwind of sharp verses and curly hair on ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The makers of an Egyptian film exploring the subjugation of women across the Middle East say they have won widespread praise as well as deeply personal criticism since the movie was ...

Woman today in Egypt won a right that they obviously should have had all along after an Egyptian court banned the administration of "virginity tests" on female prisoners, reports MSNBC and CNN. The ...

February witnessed a milestone for Egyptian women in sports after champion Basant Hamida won the gold medal in indoor athletics at the Karlsruhe International Athletics Meeting in Germany, achieving ...