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Aswan

This handout picture released by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on June 24, 2024 shows the top fragment of a sarcophagus discovered at the site of a discovery of 33 ancient tombs in Egypt's southern city of Aswan. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP)
June 29, 2024, 9:20 am
Egyptian tomb find may shed light on ancient diseases
Initial archaeological study shows evidence of conditions including infectious diseases, bone disorders, women with signs of pelvic bone trauma, anemia, malnutrition, tuberculosis
By AFP
Illustrative: A giant stone figure of Ramses II stands in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, August 4, 2019. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)
January 12, 2023, 4:49 pm
Egypt foils theft of 10-ton ancient Ramses II statue
Three men arrested for trying to steal pharaonic artifact and excavate antiquities at Aswan
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A tourist takes a picture of two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Egypt's famed temple city of Luxor, December 14, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Radwan Abu Elmagd)
April 30, 2015, 6:31 pm
4,400-year-old statue of Egyptian pharaoh found
Belgian archaeologists discover rare sculpture of Pharaoh Sahure, who reigned in the 25th century BCE
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a minibus in Egypt (photo credit: CC BY Islam Kotb/Flickr)
October 13, 2014, 12:40 pm
30 killed in southern Egypt road accident
Three speeding minibuses collide in Aswan province, official says
By AP
June 28, 2014, 5:39 am
2 dead in clan fighting in southern Egypt
Arab family in Aswan kills two Nubian men, set bodies on fire, raising concern of increased violence
By AP
The Nile near Aswan in south Egypt (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Citadelite, Wikimedia Commons)
April 5, 2014, 5:08 pm
23 killed in feud between families in south Egypt
Quarrel over graffiti prompts insults, devolves into bloody battles on the streets
By Haggag Salama
A view of the Nile River. (CC-BY plusgood, Flickr.com)
March 31, 2013, 11:52 pm
Over 50 Iranians head to Egypt via reopened route
Visitors’ movements will be restricted due to objections from ultraconservative Sunni Muslims to ‘heretical’ Shi’ite tourism
By Haggag Salama
Egypt's minister of tourism, Hesham Zaazoua, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, March 28, 2013 (photocredit: AP/Khalil Hamra)
March 28, 2013, 11:12 pm
Egypt’s tourism minister says Iranians pose no risk
Visitors from the Islamic Republic were banned for more than three decades; now Cairo hopes they’ll help the flagging economy
By Mariam Ezzat
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