A hot air balloon flying over Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor has caught fire and crashed into a sugar cane field today, killing at least 19 tourists.

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 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.

Richard Collins on the translator whose persistence solved a mystery.

Hundreds of people in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor clashed with riot police today during a protest against government attempts to move them to make room for an open-air museum.

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.

ON May 17, Fred Barry, chief executive of the National Roads Authority (NRA), wrote in a national newspaper that he wished to provide a road that would improve the quality of life and safety of residents of counties Meath and Cavan.

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.

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.

AN American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of Tutankhamun in 1922, one of the archaeologists said on Thursday.

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.

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.