The oohs and aahs of bedazzled tourists turned to screams of pain and horror yesterday when the staccato crack of machine gunfire began echoing off the cliffs framing the ancient funeral temple of ...
The Egyptian government has released 900 members of an Islamic terrorist group, Gamaa Islamiya, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported. Its members were responsible for a November 1997 attack ...
Two months after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, I visited Luxor, Egypt, with a fellow professor, an American teaching in Cairo. On a hot, dusty trail high above the temple of Hatshepsut, site ...
On Nov. 18, 1997, my family and I stepped off a boat in Luxor, Egypt and attempted to make our way to the magnificent Temple of Hatshepsut. There were no cars, and the streets were deadly quiet. News ...
EGYPT’S ISLAMIC GROUP was on its last legs, which explains the act of desperation Monday in which terrorists from that group slaughtered 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians in the Temple of ...
In their neckties and shiny shoes, the young men greeting tourists at the ancient Temple of Hatshepsut would look just like restaurant maitre d’s, if not for the peculiar way their suit jackets bulge ...
AUB's new president, Peter Dorman, who is also a professor of archeology and an expert on ancient Egypt, gave a presentation on October 22 about Hatshepsut, the only woman to reign as a male pharaoh ...
The bloody massacre at Luxor yesterday tainted one of the world’s most beloved tourist attractions and a city whose economy depends on showing its treasures to travelers. The glorious complex of 4,000 ...