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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Egypt tourism

A tourist watches search operations in the area where a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, Egypt, March 27, 2025. (AP)
March 27, 2025, 5:09 pm
5 Russian tourists and 1 Egyptian killed after submarine sinks off Red Sea coast
Local media reports that 29 people were rescued, nine of them wounded, from underwater excursion to observe coral reefs in Hurghada, Egypt
By AFP
Assembly of finds from a new discovery of 11 sealed Middle Kingdom burials in Luxor. Here, shown from Burial 2: a copper or copper alloy mirror with an ivory handle displaying the rather rare design of a four-faced Hathor presenting her as a woman with austere features. (South Asasif Conservation Project)
November 2, 2024, 8:12 pm
Joint US-Egypt archaeology team unearths 4,000-year-old tomb in Luxor
11 coffins for men, women and children found inside necropolis, suggesting it was a family tomb
By AP and ToI Staff
A screenshot from video shows a ship called Hurricane after it caught fire in Egypt's Red Sea, June 11, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 13, 2023, 11:24 am
Tour operator says 3 UK nationals missing in Red Sea boat fire are dead
Group’s scuba boat went up in flames off the coast of the Egyptian resort town of Marsa Alam on Sunday
By AP
Illustrative: People play in the Red Sea off Marsa Alam, Egypt, Sept. 3, 2017. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)
July 3, 2022, 11:14 pm
Romanian tourist killed in second deadly shark attack off Egypt’s Red Sea coast
Report says incident occurred 600 meters from where Austrian woman was killed on Friday, spurring authorities to close off part of coastline and ban water activities
By AP and ToI Staff
Tourists watch as a woman struggles back to shore after a shark attack in Egypt, July 1, 2022. (Screen grab)
July 2, 2022, 3:50 pm
Austrian woman dies after shark attack off Egypt’s Red Sea coast
Woman loses arm and leg, but manages to make it back to shore; dies after suffering heart attack en route to hospital; horrific ordeal videoed by tourists
By ToI Staff
Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, are displayed at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
May 31, 2022, 8:24 pm
Egypt displays newly discovered ancient artifacts from necropolis of Saqqara
Trove includes 250 painted sarcophagi with well-preserved mummies inside, as well as 150 bronze statues of ancient deities and bronze vessels used in rituals of Isis
By Agencies
Inscriptions adorn the wall of the southern cemetery of King Djoser, after its restoration, near the famed Step Pyramid, in Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
September 14, 2021, 6:22 pm
Egypt opens 4,500-year-old tomb of King Djoser following 15-year restoration
Site contains a labyrinth of corridors, decorated with hieroglyphic carvings and tiles and a massive granite-clad sarcophagus from Egypt’s Third Dynasty
By MOHAMED WAGDY
In this April 24, 2021 file photo, people visit the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo, April 24, 2021 (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
May 30, 2021, 1:03 pm
Egypt hopes new discoveries from ancient times will tempt post-pandemic tourists
Officials looking to Egypt’s ancient history, especially recent discoveries, to revive an industry that had been ravaged even before coronavirus
By Samy Magdy
File: View of the marina in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, December 20, 2012. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
March 29, 2021, 11:39 pm
Sinai crossing to open Tuesday as Israelis flock to Eilat hotels for Passover
Southern resort city returns to semblance of normalcy; Egypt destination to allow in 300 Israelis a day — with pre-travel approval and virus tests even for the vaccinated
By ToI Staff
A view of the recently restored fortress of Shali and its surroundings, in the Egyptian desert oasis of Siwa, some 600km southwest of the capital Cairo, on November 6, 2020. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
November 17, 2020, 10:57 am
Renovation of Egypt’s ancient Siwa fortress boosts fresh hopes for ecotourism
The EU and an Egyptian environmental company begin a $600,000 restoration project for the site, which suffered from erosion and torrential rains
By Hager Harabech
Mamdouh Hassan (R) shows a crocodile to visitors at his house in the Nubian village of Gharb Soheil, on the west bank of the Nile river off Egypt's southern city of Aswan, February 3, 2020. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
March 6, 2020, 11:33 pm
Egypt’s Nubians tame crocodiles for selfie-snapping tourists
Members of the Egyptian minority group catch and raise the reptiles as a source of income, but they also play an important role in the ancient Nubian culture
By Bassem Aboualabass
Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, shows an image of CT-scan of a lion cub in Saqqara, south Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)
November 23, 2019, 7:06 pm
Egypt unveils rare lion cub mummies
Items from new find, including crocodile and bird mummies, displayed at makeshift exhibition at Step Pyramid of Djoser
By Samy Magdy
Members of the Egyptian security forces stand guard at the scene of an attack on a tourist bus in Giza province south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on December 28, 2018 (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)
December 29, 2018, 4:55 pm
Egypt kills 40 ‘terrorists’ in crackdown after fatal Giza pyramids attack
Police say suspects slain in raids were preparing a series of attacks, though it does not directly link them to bus bombing that killed three tourists and an Egyptian guide
By Bassem Aboualabass
In this December 16, 2018 photo, workers landscape grounds at the Grand Egyptian Museum under construction in front of the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
December 23, 2018, 3:05 pm
After delays, Egypt’s new mega-museum set to open in 2020
Vast complex will eventually hold some 50,000 artifacts, house a cinema, restaurants and a hotel in bid to help draw tourists back to the country after years of chaos
By Brian Rohan
Illustrative: People enter Cairo, Egypt's central morgue Feb. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
October 22, 2018, 4:09 am
Egypt denies organ theft after British tourist’s death
Second post-mortem ordered by a UK coroner discovers that body of David Humphries, who died at Egypt resort, was missing heart and some other organs
By AFP
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