Beyonce Knowles has hit back at allegations she was kicked out of the Pyramids in Egypt for being "rude."

THE case for repatriation of an Egyptian mummy from its current resting place in Cork city has lost one of its most vocal supporters after he stood down as head of Egypt’s Supreme Council for Antiquities.

Egypt’s prime minister promised to fight corruption as a new Cabinet was sworn in under pressure from protesters demanding faster change and the removal of those tied to the ousted regime of president Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt's top archaeologist says he will no longer serve as a Cabinet minister and is warning that the country's antiquity sites are being looted by criminals.

A small limestone statue of the father of King Tutankhamun that went missing from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum during recent turmoil has been found.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sworn in a new Cabinet, replacing one dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS found what may be a trove of 3,400-year-old statues on the west bank of the ancient temple city, Luxor, said the head of Egypt’s antiquities department yesterday.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will return 19 artefacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, Egypt’s antiquities authority and the museum said today.

Egyptian archaeologists who have completed excavations of an unfinished ancient tunnel believe it was meant to connect a 3,300-year-old pharaoh's tomb with a secret burial site, officials said today.

EGYPT’S antiquities authority has announced the discovery of a new set of tombs which were erected for the workers who built the great pyramids.

Achaeologists have discovered a new set of tombs for the workers who built the Great Pyramids, shedding new light on how the labourers lived and ate more than 4,000 years ago, Egypt’s antiquities department said today.

Egypt’s antiquities czar took his campaign to recover the nation’s lost treasures to a new level today by cutting ties with one of the world’s premier museums, the Louvre, over disputed artefacts.

EGYPT’S top archaeologist made his version of a sales pitch yesterday, presenting 22 coins, 10 mummies, and a fragment of a mask with a cleft chin as evidence that the discovery of the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is at hand.

The tombs of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Anthony may have been discovered in Egypt, scientists announced today.

Travellers to Egypt will soon be able to explore the inner chambers of the 4,500-year-old “bent” pyramid, known for its oddly-shaped profile, and other nearby ancient tombs.

A STOREHOUSE of 30 Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb, in a new round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo, archeologists said yesterday.

A new 4,300-year-old pyramid has been discovered in the Egyptian region of Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of ancient Memphis.

Two mummified foetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun are to be DNA tested to determine their link to the young pharaoh, Egypt announced today.

EGYPTIAN archaeologists have uncovered the “missing pyramid” of a pharaoh and a ceremonial procession road where high priests carried mummified remains of sacred bulls.

CURATORS lifted the lid yesterday on a long-awaited London exhibition of treasures from the tomb of teenage Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, more than 30 years after he first cast his spell in Britain.

Egyptian antiquities experts are poised to announce what is billed as the top archaeological discovery since the 1922 find of Tutankhamun’s tomb – that a mummy housed in the Cairo Museum is actually that of Queen Hatshepsut.

Archaeologists have uncovered three wooden pharaonic sarcophagi, dating back to the 20th century BC, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement today.

FURIOUS Egypt says a contest to name the new seven wonders of the world in which the ancient Pyramids of Giza must now compete with sites like Stonehenge, is a “disgrace”.

A MASSIVE statue of one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, Ramses II, rolled through the streets of Cairo to a new home near the Pyramids yesterday to escape the corrosive pollution of its former spot in a crowded transit hub.

Archaeologists today fully unveiled the first tomb discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in over 80 years, and cracked open the last of seven sarcophagi inside to reveal embalming materials and jewellery.

AN Egyptian-German archaeological team has discovered 17 statues of Sekhmet, an ancient Egyptian goddess with the head of a lioness and the body of a woman.

THROUGH a partially opened underground door, Egyptian authorities gave a peek yesterday into the first tomb uncovered in the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.

American archaeologists have made the first discovery of a new tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings since King Tutankhamun’s was uncovered in 1922, Egypt’s antiquities chief announced.

KING Tut had a pointy head, a prominent nose and a rounded forehead with large eyes. He was about 19 when he died, and apparently he was not murdered, as earlier research had suggested.

A superbly maintained 2,300-year-old mummy bearing a golden mask and covered in brightly coloured images of gods and goddesses has been unveiled at Egypt’s Saqqara Pyramids complex south of Cairo.

THE results of a CT scan done on King Tut's mummy indicate the boy king was not murdered, but may have suffered a badly broken leg shortly before his death at 19.

Egyptian King Tutankhamun was not murdered 3,500 years ago, a CT scan on his mummified remains has revealed.

Archaeologists have found four Pharaonic tombs that go back more than 4,000 years, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement today.

Ancient Egyptian ingenuity defeated 21st century technology in front of a world wide TV audience today when a toy train sized robot cut through a door inside the Great Pyramid and revealed for the first time in 4,500 years - another door.