Mar 10th, 2010 · After a secret trip around the globe, a 3,000-year old stolen sarcophagus is returning home to Egypt. On Wednesday, U.S. authorities sent the sarcophagus to Egypt. It was confiscated by customs officials at the Miami Airport in 2008. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, offers his insight.
Mar 9th, 2010 · In the grand scheme of things, humans are mere infants on this planet. Some creatures alive today were swimming under the sea during the U.S. Civil War or photosynthesizing when the Egyptian pyramids were being built. Here are six of the oldest living things on the planet.
Feb 25th, 2010 · Some 150 members of Egypt's largest opposition movement, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, are under arrest, with more arrests expected before elections later this year. Analysts say the detentions mark a clear escalation in Cairo's hostility toward the group.
Feb 16th, 2010 · A new study reveals that ancient Egypt's best known pharaoh, Tutankhamen, was born with a clubfoot, a cleft palate and a severe bone disease. Researchers say he probably spent much of his life in pain before dying at 19 from the combined effects of malaria and a broken leg.
Jan 11th, 2010 · Egypt is building a new underground barrier aimed at blocking hundreds of smuggling tunnels under its border with the Gaza Strip. Palestinians fear what the barrier could mean for Gaza, while Egyptians are angry about the new criminal class the tunnels have spawned.
Jan 9th, 2010 · With the new year, we're told to expect a new push to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Those talks stalled last year, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat down this week with Egyptian and Jordanian officials to talk about the U.S. commitment to the process. Among the officials she met with was Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. Guest host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Foreign Minister Gheit.
Jan 7th, 2010 · Thousands clashed with police during a funeral procession for six of seven people killed in an attack on churchgoers leaving a midnight Mass for Coptic Christians, security officials said. Wednesday's attack, which happened on the holiest day in the Coptic calendar, was the worst known incident of sectarian violence in a decade.
Jan 6th, 2010 · A security official said two gunmen drove by a group of worshippers as they were walking out of the Virgin Mary church in the town of Nag Hamadi and sprayed gunfire randomly into the crowd. A government official said the attack may have been in retaliation for the rape of a Muslim girl by a Christian man.