King Khufu's first ship, a 4.600-year-old vessel considered the largest and oldest discovered in Egypt, has been transferred to the GEM Grand Egyptian Museum in the archaeological site near Cairo, with a 48hrs voyage on a truck especially designed

Egypt's Supreme Council for Urban Planning and Development has approved the request submitted by the Sovereign Fund for Investment and Development to change the use of the Tahrir Square complex to be transformed into a hotel

The Egyptian Lawyers' Association has announced an "indefinite" strike to protest the jailing of six colleagues over a fight with clerks earlier this month

One Egyptian family, the Sawiris family, tops the list of the five richest families in the Arab world according to Forbes magazine

A sarcophagus dating back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, smuggled into the United States in 2008, has eventually returned home and handed over with a ceremony in Cairo; the country is also holding talks with the UK for the Rosetta Stone